Blogcritics Comments on "That's so random!"

Comment by Phillip Winn

Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:09:32 EDT

Chaotic, man, that's totally chaotic!

Comment by bookofjoe

Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:05:52 EDT

I agree completely. In fact, in an email to Ken Ringle, the Post writer whose piece I featured, I wrote that "statistical" will be "random's" successor in the (very?) near future.

Comment by TDavid

Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:28:07 EDT

Here's something worth considering: there is no such thing as "random" when it comes to computers. They are all deterministic devices. Several companies have developed a way to measure the degrading of a radioactive material and use this as a seed for random numbers in computing, thus making the results truly random. So I would say the use of random as an insult in the context of computing isn't "cool", but rather technically inaccurate.