A.G. · @antisignal
37 followers · 71 posts · Server me.dm
Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1560 followers · 4688 posts · Server mastodon.scot
A.G. · @antisignal
31 followers · 49 posts · Server me.dm

SPACE NOISE INJECTION. Randomized painting by A.G. (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

#historiotheque #algorithmicart #randomness

Last updated 1 year ago

A.G. · @antisignal
31 followers · 48 posts · Server me.dm
Luc :broken_camera: · @45H
23 followers · 614 posts · Server mamot.fr

"So she prayed to both Lutho, the god of calculation and careful planning, and Tazu, the god of pure randomness, as her teacher had taught her to do."

Ken Liu, "The Wall of Storms"

#calculation #randomness

Last updated 1 year ago

Bodling · @Bodling
21 followers · 400 posts · Server deacon.social

@mguhlin So ... I'm now thinking of making a concerted effort to post tons of random non sequiturs, un-related words from different languages, and other straight out chaotic balderdash. Hoping they vacuum it up for AI training post haste.

Anyone with me?

#aitrainingsets #google #randomness

Last updated 1 year ago

"🔥Introducing SwiftFlame, the blazing fast framework created by a team of unicorns 🦄 and dragons 🐲 led by a sentient toaster 🍞. Can execute commands with just a wink and can predict your future 🧙‍♀️. "

#javascript #coding #webdev #randomness

Last updated 1 year ago

Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
1498 followers · 4384 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Introducing the new , from the mind of a genius unicorn named Earl. This baby runs so fast, it'll make your grandma's dentures fly out of her mouth! It even comes with a built-in cat translator.

#ziggyspeedyjs #javascript #framework #fastcode #randomness

Last updated 1 year ago

A.G. · @antisignal
32 followers · 25 posts · Server me.dm
Stephen Matheson🌵🌲 · @sfmatheson
575 followers · 305 posts · Server fediscience.org
Stéphane Charette · @charette
16 followers · 279 posts · Server lor.sh

Twice in my career I found in a company's codebase the following line of code:

srand(rand());

This was in commercial products.

Not only does this show a significant misunderstanding of how these work, but even more importantly it clearly showed that the developers hadn't bothered to test their code.

#cpp #randomness #sourcecode

Last updated 1 year ago

Ted Pavlic (he/him) · @tedpavlic
986 followers · 555 posts · Server mas.to

That's interesting. Every time I ask Google's for random whole numbers, it gives me sawtooth-like ramping patterns. This is a great example for a stochastic simulation/numerical methods course -- uniformity, but not independence (i.e., bad random number generator).

#rng #prng #randomness #llm #gpt #bard

Last updated 2 years ago

Christian Noll · @vnzn
9 followers · 167 posts · Server mas.to

/dev/random
Is it all pure coincidence or predictable? How do you create real randomness? : vnzn.de/en/2020/02/08/dev_rand

#science #operatingsystem #computer #randomness #programming #Linux

Last updated 2 years ago

sapiens · @sapiens
7 followers · 18 posts · Server universeodon.com

Just revisiting the subject of why Kolmogorov complexity is incomputable. A 'recent' (2020) paper discusses the subject: europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC7
"Kolmogorov complexity is the length of the ultimately compressed version of a file (i.e., anything which can be put in a computer). Formally, it is the length of a shortest program from which the file can be reconstructed."

#complexity #kolmogorov #entropy #computation #information_theory #randomness

Last updated 2 years ago

sapiens · @sapiens
7 followers · 17 posts · Server universeodon.com

Old but still a gem: On 1940, Alonzo Church published his paper "On the concept of a random sequence". You can get the free PDF here (at AMS): ams.org/journals/bull/1940-46-

#mathematics #alonzo_church #randomness #sequences #ams #history

Last updated 2 years ago

Timo Kissel · @timokissel
20 followers · 240 posts · Server mastodon.world
PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
1409 followers · 14391 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
Ravi · @xolve
2 followers · 3 posts · Server mastinsaan.in

Random walk through Wall Street

#randomness #wallstreetwisdom #southpark

Last updated 2 years ago

aBe · @hamoid
270 followers · 199 posts · Server mastodon.art

My brain is trying to find something familiar in random shapes

#openrndr #generativeart #randomness

Last updated 2 years ago