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Re:Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle by grondilu on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:30PM (#11824911)
Well, that only shows that this oracle can be improved. It should be able to recognize that pattern from a well known transcendental number.
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Re:Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle by jobigoud on Friday June 03, 2016 @12:37AM (#11828335)
That might be a slippery slope though. Is a known random sequence less random than an original one? Should a randomness detector keep a database of all random sequence ever produced to give lower scores to known ones?
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