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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

As I said, you can't predict the next number simply based upon the set of numbers that came before. You have to calculate it, and that calculation can be so complex that it takes insane amounts of energy to do it.

Also, I think I was thinking of the philisophical definition of "deterministic" when I was using it earlier. That doesn't really apply to pi... unless we really do live in a simulation.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

There's no way to predict what the next unsolved pi digit will be just by looking at what came before it. It's neither predictable nor deterministic. The very existence of calculations to get the next digit supports that.

Note: I'm not saying Pi is random. Again, the calculations support the general non-randomness of it. It is possible to be unpredictable, undeterministic, and completely logical.

Note Note: I don't know everything. For all I know, we're in a simulation and we'll eventually hit the floating point limit of pi and underflow the universe. I just wanted to point out that your example doesn't quite fit with pi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, but your number doesn't fit pi. It may not have a pattern, but it's predictable and deterministic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a paraphrased quote from Richard Feynman

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (6 children)

If you can't explain a difficult concept in a simple way, then you don't truly understand it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The connection from Assange to Russia was laid out in the OP. Russia had a vested interest in skewing and interfering with US politics in 2016.

There's the relevancy you failed to see.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Except it's the exact same thing Russia pulled in 2016.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I use YouTube Music and it's pretty good, but the best feature is no more youtube ads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Whoops! I dropped my /s

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I bet the attack is coming from Big Hollywood

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