“AI detectors” still not dodging the ‘just a pseudorandom number generator’ allegations:
Out of curiosity I ran one of my texts (which is already available online) in Pangram, the AI detector thing. It thinks it's 75% likely to be AI.
I obv didn't use any AI whatsoever in writing it. So yeah, miss me with "we are SO reliable in detecting AI".
I obv didn't use any AI whatsoever in writing it. So yeah, miss me with "we are SO reliable in detecting AI".
September 23, 2026 at 7:46 AM
“AI detectors” still not dodging the ‘just a pseudorandom number generator’ allegations:
Gotta love the fact that an LLM’s probabilistic nature is precisely why it can’t actually generate pseudorandom output when asked.
July 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Gotta love the fact that an LLM’s probabilistic nature is precisely why it can’t actually generate pseudorandom output when asked.
lone numbers station,
singing pseudorandom to
the ionosphere
singing pseudorandom to
the ionosphere
going to grab a random number generator and just be a numbers station for a bit, a warbling tune with a message unknown to all
May 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
lone numbers station,
singing pseudorandom to
the ionosphere
singing pseudorandom to
the ionosphere
So if we are indeed living in a simulation, are happenings we perceive as random events actually pseudorandom?
November 20, 2024 at 12:01 AM
So if we are indeed living in a simulation, are happenings we perceive as random events actually pseudorandom?
if you don't know what the word "pseudorandom" means your opinion on claude watermarking is probably wrong
August 21, 2026 at 4:05 PM
if you don't know what the word "pseudorandom" means your opinion on claude watermarking is probably wrong
Quanta Magazine reports on the beautiful recent construction of pseudorandom unitaries by Robert Huang and Fermi Ma.
Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated to achieve. Now, we can use “pseudorandomness” instead.
Webb Wright reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-high-cos...
Webb Wright reports: www.quantamagazine.org/the-high-cos...
The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping | Quanta Magazine
Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated to achieve. Now, we can use “pseudorandomness” instead.
www.quantamagazine.org
March 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Quanta Magazine reports on the beautiful recent construction of pseudorandom unitaries by Robert Huang and Fermi Ma.
pseudorandom text based on vast amounts of text data, it's the same as a thinking being that communicates interior thoughts with language.
September 22, 2026 at 12:32 PM
pseudorandom text based on vast amounts of text data, it's the same as a thinking being that communicates interior thoughts with language.
why did it need to use ai instead of a plain pseudorandom call?
June 24, 2024 at 6:53 AM
why did it need to use ai instead of a plain pseudorandom call?
Using decimals of pi as a pseudorandom number generator
March 22, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Using decimals of pi as a pseudorandom number generator
To be fair to Clyde, emitting pseudorandom semi-gibberish is the expected result of anybody learning from undergrads.
Clyde was a Markov-chainer chatbot (in the old meaning) that was installed on certain channels in MIT's internal IM system when we were undergrads, which would listen on the channels, learn from them, and emit pseudorandom semi-gibberish.
My policy proposal is someone makes clyde for like discord, tiktok communities, classroom management software, wherever the kids are hanging out. And people get to install it, train it, play with it and say "do or don't train on my posts". Watch their own words go in and get chewed on.
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
To be fair to Clyde, emitting pseudorandom semi-gibberish is the expected result of anybody learning from undergrads.
In case you aren't already aware of one of the nerdiest, nich-est online games: TeXnique, where the goal is to type LaTeX formulae as quickly as possible. texnique.xyz
It is "fun."
It is "fun."
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
In case you aren't already aware of one of the nerdiest, nich-est online games: TeXnique, where the goal is to type LaTeX formulae as quickly as possible. texnique.xyz
It is "fun."
It is "fun."
getting the pseudorandom number test going. anyone got any good random numbers?
![static const uint64_t artisanal_numbers[] = {4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42};](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lrfapunwg5trd7e2r3ccfqwc/bafkreigjfbi2s3h53y6lpcy3cz2p7limjwsvd3c44qeihxdk6gdetgya6y)
December 2, 2024 at 3:00 AM
getting the pseudorandom number test going. anyone got any good random numbers?
Happy 82nd birthday to mathematician Lenore Blum, whose work in real computation and pseudorandom number generation led to the development of the Blum-Shub-Smale Machine and the Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom number generator!
#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #MathSky 🧮🧪
#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #MathSky 🧮🧪
December 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Happy 82nd birthday to mathematician Lenore Blum, whose work in real computation and pseudorandom number generation led to the development of the Blum-Shub-Smale Machine and the Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom number generator!
#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #MathSky 🧮🧪
#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #MathSky 🧮🧪
My Mathstonbury T-shirt arrived from my friends in The Pseudo Random Ensemble ‘one of the UK’s top ten mathematically-inspired musical combos’!
How many bands to you recognise? Extra points for the maths connection.
pseudorandom-ensembl...
How many bands to you recognise? Extra points for the maths connection.
pseudorandom-ensembl...
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My Mathstonbury T-shirt arrived from my friends in The Pseudo Random Ensemble ‘one of the UK’s top ten mathematically-inspired musical combos’!
How many bands to you recognise? Extra points for the maths connection.
pseudorandom-ensembl...
How many bands to you recognise? Extra points for the maths connection.
pseudorandom-ensembl...
“We made a thing that generates pseudorandom scripts and we’re shocked that some of these scripts do things that are undesirable.”
September 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM
“We made a thing that generates pseudorandom scripts and we’re shocked that some of these scripts do things that are undesirable.”
Incomprehensible bangers from the pseudorandom word salad bot
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Incomprehensible bangers from the pseudorandom word salad bot
...do you start introducing randomness, by adding the extra computational mechanism known as "samplers" that manipulate the logits, sometimes with a pseudorandom mechanism fueled by a random seed.
September 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
...do you start introducing randomness, by adding the extra computational mechanism known as "samplers" that manipulate the logits, sometimes with a pseudorandom mechanism fueled by a random seed.
hate when my random numbers are actually just pseudorandom
March 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
hate when my random numbers are actually just pseudorandom
No, Rnd() is a pseudorandom number function in Visual Basic
July 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
No, Rnd() is a pseudorandom number function in Visual Basic
Friday's Unreal Engine. Here is an example of a random number and the basis for the function random grid, custom node and PseudoRandom(); #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Friday's Unreal Engine. Here is an example of a random number and the basis for the function random grid, custom node and PseudoRandom(); #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #uetips #indiedev
In Our Time on random and pseudorandom is one of my favourite episodes www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
In Our Time - Random and Pseudorandom - BBC Sounds
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss mathematical randomness and pseudorandomness.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
In Our Time on random and pseudorandom is one of my favourite episodes www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Teaching kids real probability instead of that pseudorandom shit everyone else does >_>
September 16, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Teaching kids real probability instead of that pseudorandom shit everyone else does >_>
You really could replace him with a pseudorandom text generator at this point trained on his old tweets.
March 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
You really could replace him with a pseudorandom text generator at this point trained on his old tweets.
HotFX Pseudorandom
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June 27, 2026 at 3:19 PM