Ch 12: The Sense of Randomness

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What are the three opposites of randomness?

Comment on Poincaré: "Chance is only the measure of our ignorance" [p. 326]. What does he mean?

How would you make a random number generator?

Chaitin: "A number is not random if it is computable.... Thus computability is a measure of randomness" [p. 331]

Newton: "Nature is pleased with simplicity" [p. 333].  Is it??

"The three are fundamentally equivalent: information, randomness, and complexity" [p. 337].

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