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Alt Text: Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician, won what's known as "the Nobel Prize of computing" for his work on randomness.

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[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 months ago

You jest but the kind of stuff this guy works on is actually really fascinating

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 20 points 5 months ago

I believe it. I had a professor in college who said if he found a genie he would wish for 3 different sets of truly random data lol

[-] twack@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Would they still be random after the genie gave them to him?

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Okay, Schrodinger

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