In Defense of Randomness

4 comments

• skybrian 923 days ago
  It sounds like the explore / exploit trade off as seen in a multi-armed bandit problem.

  Also, a known source of randomness (that you add yourself or already occurring) is pretty important for determining causality.
• rob_c 922 days ago
  And to poke fun, my random post about hobbits and unicorns is clearly preordained by the boundary conditions of the big bang.

  It's not my fault I ate all the cheetos, it's science :p
• jimmySixDOF 922 days ago
  TFA author could use a good drunken walk through the garden of forking paths /s
• a1369209993 923 days ago
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