On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > It would seem to me that humans have a need to make sense out of > something that appears senseless, and have to impose a pattern on > randomness. That's why there are legends of giants wrestling and
Consider two observers of a sequence of bits, when only one of whom has the cryptographic key needed to turn the sequence of bits into a readable message. For that observer the message is not random, but it is unpredictable for the other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness#Randomness_versus_unpredictability I freaking *love* randomness. (Couldn't have guessed that, neh?) So... does the observer /really/ affect the observed? Can you *feel* me staring at you? Heh. -- Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. Emile M. Cioran ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306614 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
