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Re:Human generated semi-random binary stream by weinzierl on Sunday March 08, 2015 @05:30AM (#9165128)
Just because it's biased towards 0 it doesn't mean there's no entropy in it. Even the raw output of an entropy source based on radioactive decay or thermal noise is biased.

To generate a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed a randomness extractor [1] has to beapplied. The most well know is the Von Neumann extractor.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor

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