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- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
Piling on another comment to say that lurking here feels much nicer than on reddit. The comments are actually worth reading a lot of the time. RiF going down was a dark day, but Jerboa and Lemmy make everything light.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 4 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 4 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 4 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)