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Old February 17th, 2005, 03:54 PM
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Default Re: Random Magic Paths - is it truly random?

Restarting the computer incessently is a dogmatic method of course, if you're not seeing a real pattern.

If the system wasn't random you could use and expert system (thats the engineers term for artificial intelligence) to predict the outcome. Of course with the turing machine's (a computer is a turing machine)inability to actually produce random numbers, with enough samples the expert system may eventually learn how predict the supposed randomness, but it would take quite a few samples and a very sophisticated expert system.

Has anyone learned anything from reading these posts?

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