In Defense of Randomness (opens in new tab)

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24 pointssegalord4y ago3 comments

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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_c4y 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

TFA author could use a good drunken walk through the garden of forking paths /s

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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_c4y 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

TFA author could use a good drunken walk through the garden of forking paths /s

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse