Sep 22, 2010 17:59
The next time someone says that randomness is just a property of how values are generated... I'm going to send them a gigabyte of thermal noise. And then I'm going to send them a message saying "replace this with that data I just sent you" and ask how many bytes it took to say that.
(Truth is it's a pretty small, largely philosophical distinction. But it sort of annoys me.)