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- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 2 months ago:
The modern interpretation, sure.
And agreed, “random, you might like this” is not as random as “here is a page on red food colouring”
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 2 months ago:
That’s why I said seeded. Seeded from noise. The random number generator (function) is still an algorithm…
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 2 months ago:
In comsci, there are no real random numbers. They are all seeded psuedo-random number algorithms. (Unless you integrate with some third party random as a service setup)