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Humans think real random isn't random 🙃
It's wild but they see patterns
The problem isn’t that their random is biased or has rules, the is that it is entirely deterministic, to the point where it will play the same exact songs, in the same exact order for days. It’s as if shuffle just activates a hidden “shuffle” playlist that only updates once a week.
Well, computers physically cannot be random, they rely on logic
CSPRNGs are a thing...
As are radioactive sources
And there's mathematical tests for whether something is random enough
So no, computers really can do random xD
CSPRNG literally stands for "cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator". All randomness in computers is pseudorandom. Not TRULY random
Radioactive sources for randomness aren't really just put into your average household PC or phone either for obvious reasons.
A CSPRNG is more than random enough for a playlist xD
Take it from someone who works in the field - computers do random well enough rotflol
That's not what I'm doubting here. I was raising awareness to the fact that a computer physically cannot be truly random. I know that pseudorandomness is enough as we cannot perceive a difference easily.
Randomness is lumpy as one mathematician put it.