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Excellent and well written reading, really liked the graphs to illustrate how the various algorithms loop.

The more naive the observer, the simpler the pseudorandom algorithm necessary for apparent randomness.

For a paramecium a=a+1 might do.

Humans attempting to be random are not that much more sophisticated than the putative paramecium; they can be predicted with a 16 bit model: https://this1that1whatever.com/miscellany/mind-reader/Shanno...

I ended up doing better by choosing the answer myself, than by using a die. Go figure.

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