Somebody stole the hamburglar toy at work.

Burgleception

Is It An Aerial Photo When It Is This High?

Coming up with titles is sometimes hard. My brain's not awake right now. Sorry.

From the lovely fields north of Santa Barbara toward Solvang in California.

https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/is-it-an-aerial-photo-when-it-is-this-high/

Somebody at work keeps getting happy meals and leaving the toys around and I don't mind lol

#worklife
#randomness

#gaia #tippingpoint #blackswan #randomness #breakdown Have we just witnessed or witnessing one of those #seismic and totally #random events that really do change the course of #history. It does kind of have that feel, but I've never lived through one before. #geopolitics #economy

Randomly continuing my thoughts from 3am...

I want to trade this life for fortune and fame I'd even cut my hair and change my name..

#vaguepost
#randomness

Blazingly slow

Perfectly uniform distributions if you believe in it

Impure, unreproducible, and indeterministic

Cryptographically secure, perchance, I think?

Significantly more efficient than all known alternatives

Why ll you want something diagonally opposite to the goals of nix ?
__ #randomness #nix
- rand-nix: github

Fellow agnostics, freaks and weirdos rejoice-- loving uncertainty can have psychological benefits. Open-mindedness, trying weird shit, etc. Things I'm a big fan of

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/learning-to-love-uncertainty-may-have-psychological-benefits

An Article in the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics on Turbulence by KR Sreenivasan and J Schumacher
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031620-095842

What is the turbulence problem, and when can we say it’s solved? This deep dive by Sreenivasan & Schumacher explores the math, physics, and engineering challenges of turbulence—from Navier-Stokes equations to intermittency and beyond. A must-read for anyone fascinated by chaos, complexity, and the unsolved mysteries of fluid dynamics!

A summary of the talk presented by KR Sreenivasan in December 2023 at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) in Bengaluru, as part of a program on field theory and turbulence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwVSBYh-KC4

"Field Theory and Turbulence" program link: https://www.icts.res.in/discussion-meeting/ftt

#FluidDynamics #Physics #NavierStokes #UnsolvedMystery #Mechanics #Dynamics #FluidMechanics #Science #Chaos #TurbulentMotion #Randomness #Chaotic #Fluid #ClassicalMechanics
#Turbulence

Drand(https://drand.love) just got two new members in February! Hochschule Luzern and @ZKV.xyz

Drand, which provides "verifiable randomness" as a service, these new members joined its "League of Entropy", which is a collaborative project to provide a verifiable, decentralized randomness beacon for anyone that may need a public source of randomness.

#C4DT_EPFL, #DRand, #Randomness, #Decentralization #RandomnessAsAService #Web3

@CptSuperlative On randomness, still my favourite article of the past two decades, "If you can't choose wisely, choose randomly", by Michael Schulson:

As moderns, we take it for granted that the best decisions stem from a process of empirical analysis and informed choice, with a clear goal in mind. That kind of decision-making, at least in theory, undergirds the ways that we choose political leaders, play the stock market, and select candidates for schools and jobs. It also shapes the way in which we critique the rituals and superstitions of others. But, as the Kantu’ illustrate, there are plenty of situations when random chance really is your best option.

https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-randomly

Much more, and apparently heavy reliance on a couple of books I'd still like to read, by Michael Dove, Michael Stone's The Luck of the Draw: The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making, Robert Finlay's Politics in Renaissance Venice, and a few others.

@aud

So I'm watching the original Japanese Iron Chef and at the beginning of each show is a quote..

You've heard,
"You are what you eat"
but that's not really the original quote.. it's this.. beginning every episode.

"Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are"
Brillat-Savarin

What a completely different thought.

Ya ever think about pets from their perspective?

Like randomly somebody grabs you and starts rubbing you all over all the time. And do you really think there would ever be a time you would wander over to some creature 10 times your size and snuggle up to go to sleep?

It's pretty weird if you look at it from their perspective.

Discrimination can arise random differences, such as a coin flip

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-discrimination-random-differences-coin-flip.html

Yesterday, I was reading a #randomness chapter in my #GameDesign book. I got to thinking. I'm a city builder, RTS kind of guy. Where does randomness fit in there, except for procedural world generation and stuff like the chance an archer hits the target? Does anyone have ideas?

#BlackSwan event. Retrieving my books was done in quick time as I had to somewhere to be.
So, I made several trips to & fro from the P.O.
The books went down 'higgeldy piggeldy'.
Now, I notice, this 'interesting' conjunction.
#Randomness gets everywhere.