Question for Bill Wurtz on 10.1.17 4:23 pm : "define random."  Bill says chosen without reason blah blah preferably by computer to eliminate accidental reasoning  I feel the particular response to be inadequate due to some research  "One thing that traditional computer systems aren't good at is coin flipping," says Steve Ward, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "They're deterministic, which means that if you ask the same question you'll get the same answer every time. In fact, such machines are specifically and carefully programmed to eliminate randomness in results. They do this by following rules and relying on algorithms when they compute."  You can program a machine to generate what can be called "random" numbers, but the machine is always at the mercy of its programming. "On a completely det
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 ic machine you can't generate anything you could really call a random sequence of numbers," says Ward, "because the machine is following the same algorithm to generate them. Typically, that means it starts with a common 'seed' number and then follows a pattern." The results may be sufficiently complex to make the pattern difficult to identify, but because it is ruled by a carefully defined and consistently repeated algorithm, the numbers it produces are not truly random. "They are what we call 'pseudo-random' numbers," Ward says.  - MIT School of Engineering  How do you feel about this? Will you stay with your stance of preferring computers to eliminate accidental reasoning or have you been influenced to believe that the machine can never trump human creativity
if you just take a number value associated with the current time, on a very small scale, and convert it to mod7 for example, (if you are looking for a number from 1 to 7) you will easily get random choices that no human user could ever manipulate. but furthermore, there are even some more advanced techniques happening on random.org which enables it to easily give me random sequences of numbers which are more than good enough for anything i could possibly need random numbers for