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In Defense of Randomness

by segalord on 10/16/21, 12:08 PM with 3 comments

• by skybrian on 10/16/21, 9:52 PM

  It sounds like the explore / exploit trade off as seen in a multi-armed bandit problem.

  Also, a known source of randomness (that you add yourself or already occurring) is pretty important for determining causality.

• by rob_c on 10/17/21, 12:28 AM

  And to poke fun, my random post about hobbits and unicorns is clearly preordained by the boundary conditions of the big bang.

  It's not my fault I ate all the cheetos, it's science :p

• by jimmySixDOF on 10/17/21, 11:45 AM

  TFA author could use a good drunken walk through the garden of forking paths /s