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Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future
hackajar writes "Red Nova news has an interesting article about a random number generating black box that may be able to see into the future. From the article: "according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the 'eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events"."
You mean I don't need to subscribe to Slashdot to see the Mysterious Future?
Then maybe it can help me to win a few more Rock Paper Scissors games too.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
01010101011010111111000000000111110000000000000000 0000000000000000000
The force that blew the Big Bang continues to accelerate.
I predict a great writter will make a short story about a machine like that and Hollywood will turn it into an awful motion picture!
Parent is a troll
I predict that this post will hit +5 funny!!
:-(
No?
It just spit out the number 42. I guess there really is something to this little black box.
And I suspect if we have any sort of "psychic" abilities, they may be able to affect them some of the time. Ever notice some people are cursed when it comes to computers, while others have a kind of "healing" effect on them? I know I've walked into rooms with a computer I'm supposed to fix and it's suddenly not having problems.
is this the machine Bush was using to predict terror alerts? not very accurate.
Enjoy Every Sandwich
That's why it's a black box. If we knew how it worked then it'd be a magic white box...
Read the article and his multiple qualifications. It's not like this is some crazy guy in his basement, it's Princeton.
Elevators.
The flaw in your argument is that there is, in fact, no such thing as good macaroni and cheese.
Unpredictability in Future Microprocessors
Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 12, @09:27PM
Science: Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future
Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 13, @12:43AM
from the could-be-hooey dept.
hackajar writes "Red Nova news has an interesting article about a random number generating black box that may be able to see into the future.
eh heh heh
Wow. I just dozed off there for a moment and the rest of February and March just zipped on by. I must be getting old or something...
I predict that this story will appear again on the front page of Slashdot within the next 48 hours.
Regards,
Karnak the Magnificent
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Facts shmacts. Facts can prove anything thats remotely true.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
No, the laws of chance do not say any such thing. In fact, the laws of chance say exactly the opposite. If you have two choices chosen at random over a series (a 1 and a 0; or heads and tails on a coin), there is a high probability that one of the choices will be chosen a significantly higher number of times than the other. Over time, the percentage disparity will decrease to near zero, but the total numerical disparity is likely to increase.
I can see into the future. You will get a 5, Informative for making this obvious mathematical observation.
I feel a disturbance in the force. It's as if a million random number generators cried out all at once ... and became silent.
It turns out you can watch these eggs live over at the It's fascinating stuff, although it feels a bit overly dramatic. It keeps making heartbeat sounds, and whenever a statistical deviation exceeds a certain boundary it goes 'ping'.
So not only is it a website that predicts the future, it's a website that goes 'ping' that predicts the future. what more could a geek want?
I want the fire back.
Wow. I guess it's time to tell Princeton that "Capt'n Hector" says they're wrong so it must be true!
"Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman
What the hell, it's being run by Princeton? No way I'm believing this now.
1. Throw away macaroni
2. Replace artificial cheese flavored goo with mozarella
3. Shoot Rick Berman from a cannon
4. Pizza!
If I were this guy, I would claim that women's breasts get firmer right before big events, and ask for a million-dollar grant to study hundreds of women. If you are going to be a quack, then go allll the way.
Table-ized A.I.
"The thing that bothers me about this "experiment" is that it presumes to assert that people can control a machine that generates random events, without describing the algorithm by which those random events are produced..."
I believe their algorithm for producing random numbers was sound - it was based on completely unpredictable world events of extreme importance. Oh, wait...
Working for an infinite period, they'd eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, yeah?
You'd probably get the entire contents of Usenet too for free.
Cheers
Stor
"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
Yeah like slashdotting the "eggs".
OK, 65 eggs, so we'll use the extra one as a parity bit. Everyone concentrate on the following binary number really really hard:
1010011 1101100 1100001 1110011 1101000 1000100 1101111 1110100 1
Someone had to do it.
Omigod..... I'm PSYCHIC!!!!
I think I'll just go to sleep now ... before I get more tired.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
"studies have shown it can flow backwards as well as forwards."
What studies? Ones that haven't occurred yet?
It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.
Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.
Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!
I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
PT Barnum observed "There's one born every minute." Clearly an under-estimate, since his field of observation was obscured by dense n00bs, but he was not actually wrong.
Sent from my ASR33 using ASCII
This sounds like a Jewish telegram
They read "start worrying, details to follow."
___
It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
I demand that you appologize to Mr. Potato Head for the use of him in this context. He keeps the bad man from coming out at night by using his mighty Spud Beams.
Pah! I've known that RNG's are unfriendly for years. You've never played Nethack, have you? ..though I do find it becomes more cooperative when offered a human sacrifice...
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
Correction: 75 top scientists
I'll say. It's exactly like your last comment.