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Re:How random is xkcd? (2015) by mjburgess on Thursday December 28, 2023 @08:14AM (#38793137)
The term `random` is a relative one, X is random wrt to Y, iff P(X|Y) = P(X)

Random data is highly patterned regardless. The choice of Y=everything-but-/dev/random is has no special status (ie., P(X|/dev/random) = 1).

Better than `random` is set to draw from the long tail of lower-rank-by-view comics. Then Y = the-url / user-preference / ...

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