Re: random, was Predictions duplications

2001-10-17 Thread jamikes
Bruno, I appreciate your choice of incompressibility - as far as mathematical views are concerned. How about a random choice of a color from a hundred others? can this be algorithmic and incomressible? Or a choice at random from available several routes, how to defend an innocent accused in

Re: random, was Predictions duplications

2001-10-17 Thread Russell Standish
Yes, in a different context, random could be applied to deterministic chaos, however in the context of our discussion, we're not talking about that. Cheers jamikes wrote: Bruno, I appreciate your choice of incompressibility - as far as

Re: Random, was Predictions duplications

2001-10-15 Thread jamikes
According to whim or taste implies a conscious entity performing choices according to a free will. This need not be the case. In my mind, random means selected without cause (or without procedure/algorithm). Russell picked my example from a language which has no equivalent to the word random .