"For I do not believe that it is through the interference of Divine Providence … that the spittle of a certain person moved, fell on a certain gnat in a certain place, and killed it."
In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of definite patterns or predictability in information. A random sequence of events, symbols or steps often has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual random events are, by definition, unpredictable, but if there is a known probability distribution, the frequency of different outcomes over repeated e
"One of us recalls producing a random plot with only 11 planes, and being told by his computer centers programming consultant that he had misused the random number generator: We guarantee that each number is random individually, but we don’t guarantee that more than one of them is random. Figure that out."
Randomness"Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance."
Randomness"Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they cant be seen."
Randomness"Events may appear to us to be random, but this could be attributed to human ignorance about the details of the processes involved."
Randomness"The definition of random in terms of a physical operation is notoriously without effect on the mathematical operations of statistical theory because so far as these mathematical operations are concerned random is purely and simply an undefined term."
Randomness"Quand une regle est fort composée, ce qui luy est conforme, passe pour irrégulier."
Randomness