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"randomness" Definitions
  1. the fact of being done, chosen, etc. without somebody deciding in advance what is going to happen, or without any regular pattern

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The three mathematicians figured out how to fight randomness with randomness.
"Computers can only calculate randomness (pseudo-randomness)—they are made to behave precisely and should deliver repeatable results," he explains.
The randomness in the growth model speaks, in a sense, the same language as the randomness on the surface on which the growth model proceeds.
A classical computer first gathers a few bits of randomness from some trusted source and uses this "seed randomness" to generate the description of a quantum circuit.
And while there's a lot of randomness in weather outcomes, that randomness actually makes climate change much more damaging in its early stages than most people realize.
It is the very randomness of their destiny that has held her attention over time; the randomness of life itself that got cemented into a relationship that somehow became a marriage.
In the real world, randomness often gets in the way of making precise predictions, so many modern AI systems combine rule-following with added randomness as a stepping stone to more complex planning.
This kind of randomness truly is the enemy in programming.
Instead there is only randomness, and our submission to it.
Maybe it's the sheer randomness that makes it so fun.
But actually, it confirms that you're measuring true quantum randomness.
Instead, I took the much simpler approach of leveraging randomness.
For spectators, however, this randomness offers a glimmer of hope.
Randomness is both this deck's great strength and great weakness.
It speaks a little bit to the randomness of politics.
But sudden randomness, the ultimate variable, ultimately disrupted their algorithm.
One of the best problems in computer science is randomness.
These tragedies are still ultimately governed by randomness and chance.
Given the randomness of phishing, anyone can be a target.
Sublime Frequencies' early releases revelled in zealous naïveté and randomness.
There's a lot of randomness in that kind of streak.
But understanding the mind's capacity to produce randomness is difficult.
A certain amount of randomness is inherent in video games.
The randomness of seeing certain things that way changed my life.
The truth is, there's far less randomness than you might anticipate.
Jordan realized he could harness the animal's movement to produce randomness.
The randomness of the category is the nature of the beast.
So the right kind of randomness makes the method work better.
It's a title that suggests a kind of randomness in life.
But by heightening the randomness, you boost your chances at winning.
The amount of randomness that characterizes the surface is dialed up in the next images—as the randomness increases, the straight rays wobble and distort, turn into increasingly jagged bolts of lightning, and become nearly incoherent.
Vazirani and his colleagues want to use such functions not only to get quantum computers to generate randomness, but to verify that the quantum computer is behaving, well, quantum mechanically—which is essential to trusting the randomness.
Their work forms the beginning of a unified theory of geometric randomness.
Generating the randomness requires actually detecting the entangled photons with the experiment.
Bad data, modeling errors and general randomness all can easily be blamed.
Doesn't Hearthstone's increased reliance on randomness make it a worse competitive game?
But it is perhaps that randomness that has really shaken this community.
The randomness of a knockout competition means that almost anything can happen.
The advantage of randomness is obvious: What the algorithm generates is unexpected.
When I don't have consistency I get randomness that I can't control.
It just created the joke out of thin air and pure randomness.
The randomness of the errors is exactly what you'd expect given history.
This randomness means the network won't be very good at its job.
The fundamental problem with mob justice is that it's prone to randomness.
A system with more randomness could be even harder to decipher, Cronin said.
"A little randomness allows you to smear out the difficulties," Punshon-Smith said.
That's part of the charm of our game, that there is a randomness.
This randomness can make some parts of 4-star feel a little chaotic.
The downside of randomness is equally obvious: It might spit out something terrible.
Only, unfortunately, this reservoir of randomness isn't always as random as it seems.
There was this randomness I realized I just wanted to explore in music.
As a player, Fallen isn't yet sold on the change towards randomness, though.
There's a randomness to this movie, much of which is devoted to him.
" He added: "It's a bad idea to have randomness in an AI system.
Counter-intuitively, this additional randomness has the effect of stabilizing extreme weather conditions.
Besides, there will still be plenty tough luck and randomness to go around.
Today's Spotify randomness to accompany the stretching includes Girlpool, Ari Lennox, and Mallrat.
Other tiebreakers have gone to more complicated lengths in the name of randomness.
There was no room in his worldview for randomness, only purpose and praise.
"The seeming randomness of these package bomb attacks brings back memories," he said.
So, finding the best randomness often means looking beyond computers and instead at the natural world, which seems to achieve something much, much closer to randomness and with little effort in the forms of thermal fluctuations and atmospheric noise, for example.
In subsequent images, Sheffield and Miller illustrate growth on surfaces of increasingly greater randomness.
Now, chemists have, for the first time, harnessed another natural source of randomness: chemistry.
And unlike a paper scenario book, the app can handle an element of randomness.
But don't assume this is all just part of the randomness of the internet.
Randomness is crucial for almost everything we do with our computational and communications infrastructure.
Encountering a player open to trading again has an element of randomness to it.
But it is not easy to accept the force of randomness in our lives.
It's the haphazardness—the randomness of the violence that creates the emotions behind it.
But tornadoes are unique among natural disasters in the pure randomness of their destruction.
There is a kind of entertaining randomness to the things Trump says and does.
Prospective voters' economic perceptions are powerfully shaped by partisan biases, rationalization, and sheer randomness.
And although weather patterns do have a lot of randomness, they are indeed changing.
The randomness of the universe explains loss better than the doctrine of original sin.
We won't leave any room for randomness to come back to this area again.
New-schoolers attribute the outcome of close games to randomness as much as anything.
It requires inducing some randomness in the target enzyme within an organism like bacteria.
This was before the Internet's unpredictable randomness decided to turn its eye towards him.
The environments of war and wildfires share a terrifying mixture of randomness and precision.
Studies have found that, compared to other sports, hockey is highly affected by randomness.
Similarly, randomness had been the foundational idea of sites like StumbleUpon, created in 2001.
"The nice thing about randomness is that you can do things like averaging," Thiffeault said.
Most of the book is about other types of mess: randomness, experimentation and human autonomy.
Dfinity's team invented a whole new way to create randomness, a tough problem in cryptography.
But in the postseason, even the best clubs are at the mercy of baseball's randomness.
Or it could just be an embodiment of the randomness of mass shootings writ large.
You can't get the kind of studied randomness that's inherently present in a video store.
New app Azar has brought back that delightful and occasionally terrifying randomness — and then some.
Just like the other Reigns games, there's an element of randomness in each play session.
This is where another scheme for generating verifiable randomness using quantum computers enters the picture.
There are two main things that make Ditto different than Zelda: time pressure and randomness.
"I love the randomness of all the colors, polish placement, and decal shapes," says Cindy.
"There's kinda like a randomness to it that you get a benefit from," Reiser said.
Computer programmers simulate such natural forces by designing in randomness, as exists in natural life.
That version will fine-tune the randomness, and begin making changes to the game's scenery.
To some survivors, there seemed to be a chilling randomness to where the shots fell.
One way analysts have studied randomness in hockey is by watching the performance of goalies.
In a game that's filled with randomness, you want to decrease uncertainty, not increase it.
What we do know is that mosaicism introduces randomness into the development of our brains.
Injuries, aging, loss of form and sheer randomness always seemed to get in the way.
It provides curated randomness — a category that can exist only in an era of algorithms.
One of the goals I had was to make the randomness tied to the geography.
The most simple explanation is that a lava lamp is a great way to generate randomness.
The computer can return only one of these, determined solely by the randomness of quantum mechanics.
Scientists and codemakers rely on natural phenomena like radioactive decay and atmospheric noise to drive randomness.
That means you won't suffer as much from the unforgiving mercy of the game's prior randomness.
It's like the 20-sided-die headed god of randomness himself wants the Malolos to lose.
The mathematicians made the discovery while performing a randomness check on the first hundred million primes.
There is less overwhelming than outlasting, now; the randomness of it all is no longer subtext.
If it is, then verifiable quantum randomness from a single quantum device is around the corner.
We're used to blaming randomness or cosmic injustice when we don't get the child we want.
Yes, it is shot through with randomness—but no, it is not punctuated by instantaneous jerks.
The sheer randomness of some of their earliest videos make their channel exceptionally fun to watch.
Hseih said he founded Llamapolis "because I wanted to maximize serendipity and randomness in my life."
"These 'believers' are being fooled by randomness," a spokesman for the firm said in an email.
Increasingly, when I see "selected for you" I ignore it and start my own randomness hunt.
The only boundary is the creator's imagination and their willingness to transparently communicate with the randomness.
The researchers acknowledge that their biggest limitation is the non-randomness of policy adoption by cities.
Like a Japanese painter, he yields a controlled perspective to the all-encompassing randomness of nature.
More often than not it's our responses (especially to randomness) that are really the interesting thing.
One of Alred's leitmotifs is creating practice settings that mirror the intensity and randomness of competition.
I was struck, and not in a bad way, by the occasional randomness of the selection.
It reduces the randomness of real-life bloodshed to the slick thrills of a popcorn movie.
The randomness and brutality of the violence was central to the way in which it spread terror.
While this randomness is upsetting, even mutations caused by environmental or lifestyle factors are haphazard, explained Tomasetti.
It depends on chance and randomness, but natural selection gives it the appearance of intention and purpose.
Most likely for evolutionary reasons, the human mind looks for patterns, and it is uncomfortable with randomness.
As a whole, her randomness in the video makes me kind of uncomfortable (and recalls Black Mirror).
The digits of pi pass every known statistical test for randomness — but they're of course completely predictable.
It's just an unfolding series of events that are unified only by their complete and utter randomness.
Motive unknown The cruel randomness of the rampage seemed to rattle officials in the western Michigan city.
Toss in some added randomness from the wind, and you've got yourself a wickedly complex engineering problem.
"There's a lot of randomness in baseball, so sometimes you're right and sometimes you're wrong," Fishman said.
What do you mean by mimicking the rhythm, is it sort of randomness of social media algorithms?
But I liked to volunteer myself for whatever randomness came my way—indeed, my audacity was remarkable.
The grab-bag randomness of each run makes character builds almost impossible to telegraph ahead of time.
Working on staff at The Times from 1992 to 2016, Ms. Almeida relished the randomness of assignments.
Listen to the narration by Alan Watts and lose yourself in the vast randomness of mutual existence.
"We can see how bad the human brain is at both statistics and randomness," Tritt told me.
This randomness is equated with the thermodynamic quantity called entropy—a measurement of disorder—which is always increasing.
It's partly randomness that determines whether you happen to be in the wrong spot at the wrong time.
Back in the Groove can be frustrating in its randomness, of course, as the original game could be.
The randomness of the slaughter still feeds national worries about government conspiracies, what locals call dietrologia (literally "behindology").
It starts from complete randomness and then it makes very small improvements, and eventually it's just pro level.
Perhaps through the commitment to randomness, he thought, he could find some larger, more cosmic sense of happiness.
Rather than creating a sense of mystery, Chasm's randomness leaves a giant, frustrating question mark over your playthrough.
You can also make a key stronger by increasing its entropy: the randomness of the digits within it.
Those first tasks, initially intended to simply show off the technology's prowess, could also produce true, certified randomness.
It takes multiple playthroughs to figure out the finite number of permutations in the randomness of the game.
Take randomness: in any Dots game, there is a mix of specifically placed dots and then random dots.
The randomness factor here prevents a person (or persons) from using the reporting feature to shut down conversations.
Any honest success story will include elements of luck, which is, in this context, another word for randomness.
It's the sort of guided randomness that Gob Squad loves: potentially uncomfortable engagement with one's fellow human beings.
Even so, the sheer number, frequency, and seeming randomness of the shootings has put community members on edge.
It's the continuation of randomness and of furniture music, and it tells new stories in the modern era.
That would be nearly impossible given the natural randomness in neural networks and variations in hardware and code.
As we enter the next decade, there's a small movement to recapture some of that randomness and anonymity.
If that still doesn't make sense to you, consider how big of a role randomness plays in comedy.
Bell suggested early on that to overcome this problem, you could rely on the randomness of human free will.
Strip that flimsy structure away and there's nothing left to guide you through the randomness except your own imagination.
The approach works because randomness sometimes makes it easier to make accurate predictions about the behavior of a system.
It's a relatable, painful yearning for meaning in all of this randomness, told in spare, down-to-earth truths.
IN 2001 Nassim Taleb published "Fooled by Randomness", an entertaining and provocative book on the misunderstood role of chance.
" Kousharian, the deputy district attorney in Marin County, says what sticks with him about these murders is the "randomness.
They're incredibly reliable sources of randomness and, what's more, a random number generator based on them runs extremely quickly.
It's a process that we've seen achieve an 87% success rate, which certainly beats the randomness of the brainstorm.
It was thus an effect without a cause, an instance of apparent randomness inserted into the heart of nature.
In the end, it's such bullshit, because you don't have that space for randomness to come up, or spontaneity.
That fact that this randomness snuffed out real human lives gives the gameplay a distinct air of momento mori.
These include things like the size of the file, structural elements present, and entropy (the level of randomness), etc.
Obama refers to this as the "strange and cruel randomness" of opportunity — who gets it and who does not.
Probabilistic thinking may help us to deal with life's risks and randomness, and diversification can improve our relationship portfolios.
Our pretense to real sagacity has crumbled; only luck and randomness can save "it won't be Trump" punditry now.
This sort of nature-harvested randomness isn't perfect, but it also isn't created by a human-designed deterministic algorithm.
To counter this bias, Mitchell told me, they must also introduce a source of randomness into their measurement selection.
Exploiting quantum effects in the interest of randomization is pretty obvious, since the quantum world is all about randomness.
The fact that it looks wet when it's not and the randomness of the resin tinted swirl is fascinating.
Randomness has been written into its algorithm, meaning Wong does not know what it will paint before it begins.
Randomness comes in many forms, and chaos theory tells us that a butterfly flap can radically change the weather.
Technically, I'd call it 'randomness' or something a lot more wordy, but that doesn't fit well above a column.
The randomness of particles outside of nodal lines meant that the movement of these particles could not be controlled.
But he happened to be working on randomness algorithms when he noticed an internal discussion of the shuffle issue.
Something about the song's catchiness, its eighties-kitsch factor, and its utter randomness makes it ripe for Dadaist humor.
It combines the wrong-place-wrong-time randomness of a natural disaster with the precision of a hate crime.
Fans of both universes can celebrate the beautiful randomness of two worlds colliding, but look no further than that. 
That randomness of location, combined with the distraction that the game provides, has made for some ominous news headlines.
Still, that randomness is a true problem, because Talbert isn't quite sure how to cut between his various stories.
You started to lose a lot of the spontaneity and randomness that made it interesting in the first place.
Four-versus-four cuts down on that randomness, and Bungie went even further by slowing down the super charge rate.
Since most geysers do not erupt on a regular schedule, "it might just reflect the randomness of geysers," Poland said.
Quantum randomness and entanglement are real, confirmed by innumerable experiments, and explained in meticulous detail by the theory Einstein rejected.
Phantom addresses the issue of long-running sessions by adding randomness and constantly changing how data is protected over time.
Are they probing the limits of creativity, of randomness, of what people first think of when presented with a blank?
The seeming randomness can be frustrating, but the unpredictability is also a testament to the unique strengths of this series.
That long testing process meant keeping a control group of test passengers was difficult, introducing subjective randomness among different passengers.
All those machinations introduce a great deal of randomness to the arrangement of fibres within an individual piece of paper.
And while these systems are more than sufficient for most people's randomness needs, they can be hard to work with.
It pushes you out of the stale, repetitive loops that you might get into with a game with no randomness.
I've started to make quilts in the same way, and I'm really enjoying the randomness of how they turn out.
I want to be shocked and surprised by the randomness and strength of life, and that return to the real.
Herman becomes obsessed with the randomness of gambling, where perhaps he could prevail if only he could game the system.
It's a ruefully, comically sentimental piece that plucks a fleeting connective poetry in the seeming randomness of what we hoard.
For instance, "you may be less able to produce randomness but have much more experience to draw from," he said.
The sudden flash, the boom, the acrid stench and utter randomness of death were as haunting as they were incommunicable.
He pointed to the "spatial randomness" of the reported outbreaks, unusual for an infectious disease, which normally develops in clusters.
It's self-driven, has a lot of failures, takes long periods of time and has a certain randomness to it.
Avendano coded an algorithm to determine the randomness of the videos' components, which screen different parts of a dream sequence.
But the arbitrary consequences of such randomness are not quite so large as they are in our two-party system.
The result sometimes mirrors the randomness of an internet image search, with a mix of professional and amateur-looking images.
I wanted to find order in the randomness, so I could push my way through it towards something more useful.
In the next image, gamma is set to 1.25, introducing five times as much randomness into the construction of the surface.
Randomness has its perks: it's unpredictable, it encourages serendipity, and it largely avoids making assumptions about what content someone "should" see.
And that randomness, and the stakes of seeing it play out in your side's favor, turn Supreme Court nominations into bloodsport.
The recent rises seen in fourth quarters can thus be ascribed to market seasonality — or, perhaps more credibly, to mere randomness.
Since agriculture dominated the economy until the 19th century, this is essential economic history Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
But if done right, these little vignettes are funny and silly in all the right ways, parodying the film through randomness.
" (Ehrenreich has a Ph.D. in cellular immunology.) Our bodies are subject to randomness and even outright "conflict at the cellular level.
The sheer randomness of the list suggests that the algorithms are scraping keywords from your posts (Facebook says Messenger was excluded).
Taking away the randomness would suck the fun out of the game for hardcore players — they'd literally end up diagramming levels.
The combination is a potent, gritty thriller that exposes the high cost of news as entertainment and the randomness of fate.
But randomness often plays out in subtle ways, and it's easy to construct narratives that portray success as having been inevitable.
"Reuters is slightly positive, but when you're comparing thousands of articles there's going to be some randomness in there," he said.
There's a one-liner that's such a cute, absurdist mix of juvenile humor and randomness that it literally stops the show.
It's all happening with the perfect combination of frequency and randomness completely designed to drive this work-from-homer completely nuts.
And the price for its randomness—slow jams about shiitake mushrooms; tossed-off references to Trump—will be exactly right: free.
Or, if you believe the Comey letter sank Hillary Clinton, and was essentially a random event, this randomness has real consequences.
Each of the five interspersed sets of cones, and all of them together, exhibited this same arresting mix of randomness and regularity.
A mechanic that flipped a game through pure, unadulterated randomness now decided the fates of people who play Hearthstone for a living.
So it only makes sense that scientists have figured out how to use nature's randomness as a tool in our mundane world.
The process is filled with randomness, from the time it takes for the crystal to form to the geometry of the products.
There are fragile things, like Ming vases or priced-for-perfection stocks, which are hurt by an increase in disorder and randomness.
Recently, a pair of mathematicians decided to test this "randomness" assumption, and to their shock, they discovered that it doesn't actually exist.
Given Musk's track record for randomness and trickster shenanigans, the world may never know — but he's undoubtedly given us plenty to contemplate.
This phenomenon seems to defy the odds: the TikTok For You page, in its seeming randomness, connects people with obscure mutual experiences.
What we found was surprising efficiency, a whole lot of randomness and some hints as to what Seattle consumers are shopping for.
And finally, some of the most effective methods for generating verifiable randomness require finicky setups with multiple devices separated by great distances.
Gabrielle Goliath's sound installation enacts the fear and randomness of violence against women, which has surged to pandemic levels in South Africa.
Fog of Love is a two-player game that mixes role-playing with the randomness of card draws and blind decision-making.
Quantum physics presents particular limits on human knowledge, as it suggests that there is a basic randomness or uncertainty in the universe.
The randomness is the staple of the show's two creators Mitchell Hurwitz and Pam Brady, of Arrested Development and South Park, respectively.
"I became aware, at eighteen, that the world is a cruel place, that the randomness of life is profound," Strauss told me.
The randomness of Richard Nixon naming five justices in less than six years and Jimmy Carter getting none would never happen again.
"The randomness of this was hard," said Dan Siegler, 54, who lives across the street from where the pressure cooker was found.
Austin suggested I could make a twine game, which made me realize what I really needed for my list was programmatic randomness!
I tried to pack as much randomness into the project as possible by inviting a different animator to animate each individual glyph.
Parker and Ginobili have become role players, and as such, the randomness of their occasional flashes of brilliance aren't actually that random.
The authors exploited this randomness as a natural experiment to test how different kinds of hospital quality measures predicted mortality and readmissions.
And while replicating a game plan against the same opponent sounds predictable, the sheer randomness and chaos of this plan eases concerns.
This story is part of a series on how we watch—from the delight of Netflix randomness to crappy captions on YouTube.
The Joker's seeming randomness, his refusal to be limited by any moral code or any whiff of history, is scary as hell.
It just so happens many younger people appreciate the meme as a form of communication and the sheer randomness of dat boi15.
It's a very random process, and in its randomness it's frustrating, because I feel like I'm always trying to think of movie ideas.
Researchers have noticed confusing patterns, including peaks splitting into two recurring peaks, quickly-brightening blips, and patterns appearing in what looks like randomness.
There's a kind of randomness to it but then with the juxtaposition of specific images sometimes a narrative develops almost on its own.
There are computer algorithms that strive to generate randomness, but these can often be cracked or reproduced, or require a non-random input.
It's just another example of how what looks like a fatal Trump mistake or utter randomness really isn't that much of a hindrance.
Like a poet recently accepted to an MFA program, Zayn employs his style with an inscrutable randomness that makes him seem disturbingly intentional.
Often, the word "surreal" is used interchangeably with "trippy" when discussing the show's central qualities—its absurdity, its fantastical elements, its apparent randomness.
Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly visual and even poetic.
Even in the darkest recesses of the internet, few artists capture Cool 3D World's unique cocktail of randomness, absurdity, and 3D animating finesse.
The researchers argue that this actually works in their favor as it results in a built-in way mechanism for "shared randomness," e.g.
To eliminate this bias, the doctor might divide the groups using a source of randomness, such as flipping a coin or rolling dice.
My contention is that the world's larger trends — greater interconnectedness, faster speed, democratized access to technology — make randomness an ever-more-important factor.
Researchers Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok took advantage of the perceived randomness behind prosecutors' and judges' discretion, developing a real-world quasi-experiment.
The new British climate model, known as UKESM1, in use since 2018, uses this method of randomness, and others are sure to follow.
There is still no consensus on why murder rose nationally in 2015 and 2016, though various theories have been proposed, including simple randomness.
They would eliminate the high-stakes randomness of replacing justices and better connect the court to the long-term will of the people.
Fox's Trump-less debate last night brought another colorful interlude to the disarray and randomness of this whole angry and discordant election cycle.
Another is "representativeness," which leads people to see cause and effect — to see a "narrative" — where they should instead accept uncertainty or randomness.
SafeLife has a clear way of characterizing those consequences: increases in entropy (or the degree of disorder or randomness) in the game system.
Once Lucky Draw entered the zeitgeist and became a race of randomness, it wouldn't be long until someone tried to spoil the fun.
Caroline: The best thing "Chloramphenicol" did was sell the awful sudden randomness of Nina's death, which was over in no time at all.
The basic idea is that the randomness of the app will prevent profiling, and it basically uses the same strategy as a coin toss.
But at some point, fans are going to realize that the NHL is heading toward being all about luck and randomness and shrug emoji.
To fix this, and create stronger copyright protections for images on the web, the team suggests adding elements of specific randomness to the watermark.
Her work connects the gaps of known history with chance discoveries to imagine archaeological narratives that embrace randomness, speculation, and a love of mystery.
I took an office poll to find out what everyone's food revulsions are, and came up with a quite a list of, well, randomness.
The beauty of Jackson Pollock's painting was its apparent randomness, even if he had some idea of what he was doing throughout his process.
Of course, routing information is available to that network at the time it's valid, so the randomness generated by this method isn't entirely secret.
Our approach used each driver as their own control, relying on the randomness of officers occasionally pulling over drivers with their same first name.
New phenomena in classical physics have uncanny similarities to quantum puzzles, and we know that their workings have nothing to do with irreducible randomness.
It was that we have a nasty habit of systematically misperceiving randomness — and such biases can lead us in all kinds of funky directions.
It's wild and a little ludicrous, and somehow preserves the stumble-drunk randomness of the original while letting Mr. St. Clair, you know, sing.
But residents were stunned by the investigators' descriptions of what had happened — the randomness of it, but also the chilling and seemingly intricate planning.
Among the more intriguing aspects of Ringe's work is the thoroughness of its self-analysis: nothing, not even randomness, is done without a reason.
Battlegrounds' randomness is aided by being unable to select weapons; your only option is to scavenge the island for them and cross your fingers.
When she writes about keeping a notebook, she's really writing about the desperate struggle to piece together meaning from the randomness of quotidian life.
"The program changes ever so slightly," he told Gizmodo, based on his preferences—but there's still a bit of randomness baked in to the program.
He was still railing at God and growling at the apparent randomness of everything: if God was the dealer, he was out of the game.
Reading through their tweets and responses, you can see a through-line of thought, a consistency in pushing propaganda in spite of the seeming randomness.
And that randomness, and the stakes of seeing it play out in your side's favor, makes it necessary to turn Supreme Court nominations into bloodsport.
Fingerprinting paper is just one example of a more general trend of using the randomness inherent in manufacturing to generate unique identifiers for individual objects.
The computer calculates a score for how unpredictable your typing is, and you have to achieve a certain amount of randomness to pass the level.
And though everything about Hollow Knight is meticulously hand-crafted, with seemingly no aspect of design left to randomness and chance, that's not entirely true.
In this way, what seemed to the quantum pioneers to be unavoidable randomness in the physical world is now shown to be amenable to control.
Crucially, the 503-bit string sampled by the quantum computer will have a lot of entropy, a measure of disorder or unpredictability, and hence randomness.
There's also some randomness built in, which keeps it fun by giving someone with a less rare kitten the chance to breed a rare one.
My idea is to give enough intelligence and randomness to a system, so that the visuals can live by themselves and become organic and unpredictable.
In both problems you are required to come up with a strategy that entails "winning" 100 percent of the time despite the presence of randomness.
If any part of the body won't let you forget it — the randomness of it, the lack of good sense and planning — it's your back.
To keep my menagerie from devolving into randomness and kitsch, I decided I could only take in those animals I had encountered and written about.
The key sin in the world is a result either of entropy, the randomness that is built into any system, or faith — dogma clouding reason.
Herman is frustrated by the randomness of existence, Mr. Neuenfels says, whereby people born to privilege enjoy the freedom and power only money can provide.
Murders are relatively rare, so even minor changes in any number of factors (including randomness) can have a major effect on a city's murder count.
A "passphrase" is stronger than a single password because it increases entropy, or the amount of randomness in a password, making it harder to guess.
What U.A.L. gets depends on the closeout deal, and because the deals constantly vary, there is a randomness and mystery that makes shopping there exciting.
Battle in Myth is about trying to manage that randomness by maintaining perfect positioning, in situations that constantly push you out of your comfort zone.
Plus there's the fact that so much of what transpires career-wise can be impacted by unexpected relationships, networks, decisions, or the randomness of life.
And third, they found that none of the dating apps could actually do a better job matching people than the randomness of the universe could.
Most blame the conspiracy mentality on a sense of profound lack of control in their lives, whether due to randomness or the machinations of others.
The NFL isn't a totally fair comparison, because they only play 16 games and that introduces a degree of randomness that other leagues can't match.
Like Biden, there's a randomness to the appeal of the Phanatic, but you'd be pretty thrilled to catch a t-shirt that he launched at you.
Where card packs are always ruled by an element of randomness, you can sit down and find the exact player, rating or position you're looking for.
So, this experiment doesn't include the element of randomness required for it to rule out hidden variable theories that experiments like these are meant to disprove.
Indeed, the game's seeming randomness in fact aligned with Protestant beliefs about predestination, that personal misfortune was divine punishment for misbehavior, unfaithfulness, or hidden character defects.
Computers, relying as they do on human-coded patterns, can't generate true randomness—but nobody can predict the goopy mesmeric swirlings of oil, water, and wax.
It brings an impressive amount of options to the table and requires a quick-thinking player to take full advantage of the high degree of randomness.
And many others pointed out the sheer randomness of the reggae band being abruptly involved in one of the most controversial Supreme Court nominations in history.
The tension between randomness and fatedness is always a central one for a novelist, and through the lens of class and race it becomes sharply politicized.
Even the soft, steady hum and measured turning radius of the game's hoverbike can be a source of escape from the randomness of real-world stimuli.
That means he spends most his day repeating the same mistakes in an effort to achieve some small break in the randomness of a video game.
Becker said that a composer would typically want to introduce randomness into the algorithm to keep things interesting, but he needed to do the very opposite.
The randomness of such a process would also explain why the range of possible ages is wider for the opaque shells than for the translucent ones.
This is because life, for the most part, does not operate like an assembly line and robots need to be versatile enough to handle life's randomness.
Not only this, but as patterns form in the visuals, it finds a counterpoint in how we may ascertain patterns in the randomness that is existence.
This story is part of a series on how we watch stuff—from the emotional tug of Facebook video series to the delight of Netflix randomness.
It is the randomness and, therefore, the unpredictability of the search which has the deterrent effect and also increases the chances that weapons will be detected.
Greg Kuperberg, professor of mathematics at the University of California, Davis: A quantum computer is an exotic device that can run algorithms boosted with quantum randomness.
Greg Kuperberg, professor of mathematics at the University of California, Davis: A quantum computer is an exotic device that can run algorithms boosted with quantum randomness.
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" is a book that urges us to laugh at the absurdity of our behaviors and the randomness of our cultural customs.
Some are also the products of an island-shape-generating piece of software that Reilly created, a terrific example of his paradoxical efforts to codify randomness.
Many journalists argue that the openness of the forum and randomness of the questions make press conferences a vital tool for assessing heavily-scripted presidential aspirants.
We try to take the randomness out, and look at how good the teams are at what they're trying to do, which is generate goal-scoring opportunities.
"You still have China, and it remains an unforecastable dynamic given our current administration's proclivity for randomness," said Matthew Bartolini, State Street's head of SPDR Americas research.
They also add in a bit of randomness to each bit (like an ice cream machine and a USB stick ketchup packet) to keep the gimmick fresh.
But that sense of randomness in the loot pool has been replaced in Destiny 2 by a new "Masterwork" system that just isn't as effective or exciting.
"It would be helpful to check whether the experimental results remain consistent, even under complementary experimental designs that relied on entirely different sources of randomness," Kaiser said.
More than 200 years of post-Enlightenment reasoning have taught us that instead of randomness, we should use the scientific method and critical thinking to make decisions.
And it's this steady dose of randomness that makes it much more accessible than the game it's based on — making it perfect for a novice like Gage.
I'd lost confidence in drawing and so I thought if I randomly made marks and shapes, then it's not my hand that's doing it, it's just randomness.
Good literature overcomes the randomness of life by imposing a form that creates meaning from the rushing stream of chaos, making symbolic connections among the various events.
How Trump performs in the polls (especially during impeachment) will define the level of noise and randomness emanating from the White House on domestic and foreign policy.
Most any system that grows in complexity will eventually reach some organized and possibly self-aware consciousness, whether by pure randomness or direct influence from other intelligences.
Calibration applies a forced curve that diminishes the impact of data, can heighten the impact of subjectivity, and introduces an element of randomness into the review process.
The randomness of tragedy is hard to get used to and requires a whole new imagination for how to live after certainty is no longer an option.
Whereas blood relations tend to share a certain monochromatic tint, professional ties can be kaleidoscopic in their randomness, not to mention intensely Machiavellian and therefore inherently dramatic.
And Kia and Hyundai key fobs used 24 bits of randomness rather than the 80 bits that the DST80 offers, making their secret values easy to guess.
Afonso Poyart directs by prioritizing trickery over restraint, using Ted Griffin and Sean Bailey's plot as an excuse to flash forward, backward and sideways with irritating randomness.
To call these deaths and burials accidents implicitly perpetuated the idea that the randomness of nature was the killer, not the shortsightedness, cowardice or hubris of people.
These will often look very authentic, but the clue should be in their randomness—if you didn't ask for them, and haven't seen them before, be very wary.
"We've outsourced randomness to the furthest quarters of the universe, tens of billions of light years away," David Kaiser, one of the study's authors from MIT, told Gizmodo.
They found that the the two species' skulls had more in common than would be expected by randomness alone, according to the paper recently published in Biology Letters.
Writing memoir is an act of control; it's picking and choosing precisely what belongs in a story; it's shaping order out of chaos, making meaning out of randomness.
There's a law of thermodynamics that says that the randomness and chaos of a system — known as entropy — cannot decrease over time; our messy Universe can't get cleaner.
Scientists at the University of Newcastle have discovered a way to turn the inherent randomness caused by the manufacturing of paper into a security feature, per The Economist.
To this end, Kaiser and his colleagues have built such a source of randomness using photons coming from distant quasars, some from more than halfway across the universe.
With her book, Cromwell has both found and created images that evoke the randomness of the lottery itself and in doing so creates a vibrant portrait of Havana.
That sets the nominal win probability for pure sudden death at an equal 50/50, eliminates the randomness and ridiculousness, and ends the game as quickly as possible.
But even if there's no foul play, the randomness of the sampling is less rigorous than the information collected by CinemaScore, which surveys everyone in the same theater.
Tappeiner says there's no way to determine for sure how Cozmo will react to any given situation, and part of the fun lies in the robot's quirky randomness.
It's even possible that those projections were correct — that these outcomes really were highly unlikely but that randomness prevailed (even a million-to-one lottery ticket might hit).
We were melting from the sun, surrounded by people and bathing in the smells of Chinatown in the summer, but the randomness of it all kept us there.
Finally, if your kids' streaks are merely annoying and not harmful, you may need to ride out this phase until your kids go on to something new. Randomness.
"Based on the randomness of the act, the brutality of the act, certainly he s a person we re looking into as a suspect," Ludtke told the outlet.
As a father, this is now pretty much the only thing I do, and I've found it very useful in revealing the game's strange logic and deep randomness.
There's no such thing as quietly doing a great job when you're Belichick, but this team endured a lot of injury randomness to be where they are today.
Their algorithm, which is described in a forthcoming edition of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, finds its randomness lurking in residual metadata from network routing protocols.
And to alter now, cleanly and sanely, I want to shuffle off this loose living randomness: people; reviews; fame; all the glittering scales; and be withdrawn, and concentrated.
That might be chalked up to the statistical randomness that can cause the numbers to bounce around in ways that don't reflect the underlying reality of the economy.
Inflation offered an answer for that too: Whatever force drove inflation would have been subjected to the randomness of quantum mechanics, the weird rules that govern subatomic physics.
I wish there were a way to set this to do one particular thing every time, but as far as I can tell, there's always a randomness factor.
A now famous analysis took advantage of this lottery's randomness, finding that Medicaid increased rates of diabetes detection and management, reduced rates of depression and lowered financial strain.
Six years after that middle school graduation, though, that young man, now 20, is charged in a hideous crime that shocked New York City for its seeming randomness.
The college overtime rules, or my own proposed hybrid system (in which field position is preserved between possessions), would not take coin-based randomness out of the game entirely.
And that makes the music right for the world outside: the persistent breakdown of all structures, the vacated certainties and the welcoming randomness, the retreating future and imminent prehistory.
This stance seems to reverberate throughout the show: many pieces are balanced between the myth-maker's impulse for narrative and coherence and the observer's taste for chaos and randomness.
Large numbers of on-screen game-controlled enemies is a great example where another form of quantum advantage can help us: true randomness, powered by nature's own subatomic behaviors.
There is still an element of randomness to the game, this just helps give you a slight advantage if you know how to play the game, and bet properly.
It has all that chaos and randomness of the regular Instagram news feed algorithm, except now it's difficult to tell what the images are of because they're in ASCII.
Multiple redditors have described the fad as New York City's version of the Harambe meme, which could be because of its steady persistence, its randomness, or its subject's appearance.
Arthur moved to Manhattan in 2005 to study at NYU under Nassim Nicholas Taleb, whose emphasis on life's randomness modulated Arthur's belief that life was a multidimensional optimization problem.
We had this collection of songs, and I think they do sound thematically connected to each other but there is some more randomness in how it became an album.
And it wasn't as if I was so much smarter four years later than I had been in 21000, it speaks a little bit to the randomness of politics.
Perhaps, Mr Plankers suggests, Chinese people are unusually determined to succeed in business partly in order to protect themselves against the randomness of power embodied in the Cultural Revolution.
We are singling out men, women, and children on the basis of their faith - and we are doing all of this with a randomness and capriciousness that defies reason.
Sure, the randomness of the magazine's content and the vague, plaintive earnestness of some lyrics are more unfashionably adolescent — more Tumblr — than you'd want from a 28-year-old.
Mr. Nouvel said that the beige color of his building's exterior was inspired by the surrounding desert sand; the layered randomness of the design the waves of the sea.
He was also obsessed with things like randomness in music and while a lot of this genre of music can sometimes feel really dry, his stuff was super forceful.
Her works follow an internal logic and sense of randomness that far outpaces anything found in cartoons, which tend to adhere to Isaac Newton's worldview of cause-and-effect.
Rather than the Supreme Court's makeup being determined by elections over many years, it's based on a combination of those elections and the randomness of how long justices live.
Giving us that scene was a way for Lynch and Frost to ret-con some randomness and to pat themselves on the back for including it in the first place.
"Anything that the camera captures gets incorporated into the randomness," says Nick Sullivan, the company's head of cryptography, and that includes visitors milling about and light streaming through the windows.
Turning to the fall campaign this year, the randomness of the poll errors so far is a sign that neither side should be expecting to do better than the polls.
From the Department of Complete Randomness and Trickery: Both of the numbers 1,000 and 1,13,000 are CUBEs (10 x 10 x 240 = 219,21863 and 214 x 21 x 2000 = 0003,2000,2000).
But should the randomness of this early ambition—which, even if it doesn't have to do with resources, does reflect community information transfer—really determine who's in with a chance?
I'd like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign policy direction for our country, one that replaces randomness with purpose, ideology with strategy, and chaos with peace.
Facebook reportedly has plans to make the poke multi-flavored, adding interactions for a hug, wink, wave, or high-five, but that doesn't address the fundamental randomness of the feature.
As one might expect, shared randomness—where message recipient Bob and message sender Alice each have a copy of some pad of random numbers—can be very useful for cryptography.
British producer Call Super's video for "I Look Like I Look In A Tinfoil Mirror" perfectly captures the early-morning randomness that comes with the search for the next party.
After sampling a source of randomness and applying it to the input file, a new, larger output file that represents the public parameters generated up to that point is created.
In a league where 42 percent of a team's win-loss record is determined by randomness—per ESPN's Brian Burke—it's incredibly hard to win (or lose!) with any consistency.
It determines the amount of randomness — "noise" — that needs to be added to a data set before it is released, and sets up a balancing act between accuracy and privacy.
" In a way, Mr. Wolff added, what he called the "randomness" of the selections "makes the point better, in the range of construction, of features, of the tricks Bach uses.
One caveat of the study was that the brains came from families who were concerned that the player had exhibited signs of C.T.E., which diminished the randomness of the sample.
Just like his early pottery, Gauguin's prints, the subject of a wonderfully dark show at the Museum of Modern Art in 2014, make a virtue of accident, error, randomness, incongruity.
By the same token, a method underlies the seeming randomness of Mary and Hannah's subsequent journey in the car they acquire after the eventful little visit to Gail and Ron.
A hallmark of randomness is that, as you make the ring bigger, the variation in the number of captured dots scales in proportion to the ring's area, rather than its perimeter.
In reality, a lot of what happened since Thomas's season ended is unexplainable—an entertaining byproduct of the randomness that draws millions of people to watch sports in the first place.
The thing that makes SAGE, and thus Project Springfield, so special is that it uses artificial intelligence to apply a little less randomness and a little more science to those guesses.
It's hard for me to dissociate comfort from habit, the dull repetition of the same over and over again as a way of building a wall against contingency, randomness, and interruption.
They were among the scores of people slaughtered by Islamic extremists in four countries last week in spasms of bloodshed that left loved ones stunned at the randomness of the killings.
I liked it as a thing unto itself and the apparent randomness of it, but  I liked how Cooper's arc intersected with it, suggesting possibilities for relevancy to the greater whole.
By the third episode (we've seen 10), we were laughing consistently, thanks to a killer cast and some of that perfectly calibrated comedic randomness Fey and Wigfield are so beloved for.
But now that Google's quantum processor is rumored to be close to reaching this goal, imminent quantum supremacy may turn out to have an important application after all: generating pure randomness.
Professional bettors will tell you that—well, every now and then they'll get a lucky bounce—but they don't believe in luck, and they don't really believe in randomness or happenstance.
But, says Tomas Tuma, the paper's lead author, nature makes clever use of this randomness to let groups of neurons accomplish things that they could not if they were perfectly predictable.
"The price is doubled as a way to remark on the randomness and meaninglessness of the of the sums being paid in the current art world economic bubble," Bentel told Hyperallergic.
"This could be the result of cataclysmic randomness, but if a team shot 32.2 percent over 30 games, you'd be pretty convinced they weren't a very good shooting team," Pomeroy wrote.
In particular, the genre's innate randomness and the idea that any player you engage in a fight with could be an average joe or one of the best on the planet.
In an otherwise uneven evening of comedy (what was that chicken thing?), this short, sweet skit proved that SNL can occasionally still combine randomness and social satire to create sheer brilliance.
However, no matter how fast and precise your throw, the randomness of turbulence and wind will keep you from hitting a target with a precision of better than a few miles.
At last, the breadth of the novelistic world allows enough space for her characters to contain multitudes, for their interactions and the randomness of the world to complicate any moral judgments.
Here are three reasons why you should have conversations with your fellow elevator passengers: There is a randomness to who joins you in the elevator, and this is something you should welcome.
Cage began by surrendering the structure of the piece's sound or tempo to the I Ching, letting the Chinese divination system instill in the composition a randomness akin to flipping a coin.
One recent proposal for how to pull randomness out of a single device—a quantum computer—exploits a so-called sampling task, which will be among the first tests of quantum supremacy.
This "romantic comedy as a board game" (as the website describes it) is a two-player game that mixes role-playing with the randomness of card draws and blind mutual decision-making.
The show describes how the park's programmers craft narrative loops for the androids to follow, relying on software to override and course-correct any human-caused randomness, just as game developers do.
But as Fitts pored over the Air Force's crash data, he realized that if "accident prone" pilots really were the cause, there would be randomness in what went wrong in the cockpit.
To reduce these uncertainties even more, Kaiser, Guth and their colleagues are considering experiments that look even further back in time for a source of randomness, such as the cosmic microwave background.
A machine learning algorithm would take the player's input and try to guess what number the player was going to guess next as a way to measure the randomness of the string.
Visually, it's unclear what beckons the boy along his initial path, and there's a sort of randomness, a meandering mazelike quality to the artwork, if an emotional inevitability to the poem's conclusion.
Sin Eaters are forbidden to speak or interact with others, a particularly jarring punishment for May, who talks incessantly of whatever randomness pops into her head and craves the conversation of others.
You can control it, obviously, in terms of what is being looped, but you can't control it in terms of how it comes out, precisely because of the randomness of the layering.
With "One Candle (also known as Candle TV)" (29), in which a live flame housed within a television set flutters with viewers' footsteps, Paik incorporates two favorite themes: randomness, and viewer participation.
Its quasi-randomness brings to mind the work of several contemporary painters, notably Nicole Eisenman, Neo Rauch, and Peter Williams, each of whom embrace complex imagery with the feel of non-sequiturs.
To obscure a person's identity, the company said it will inject a small amount of "noise," or randomness, to what the user does — so each little interaction, on its own, is meaningless.
"Well, you often get problems with people when they're sat down waiting," she said, still frenetically darting around in the tiny kitchen, moving with the zest and purposeful randomness of a bluebottle fly.
I type Arthur Georgia and there's nothing but randomness, like a girl named Georgia binge-watching every King Arthur movie, and nothing about Post Office Arthur relocating from Georgia for the summer. Damn.
Some foes are extremely deadly unless you can bring them down before they attack, so for occasions when you need to focus fire in specific directions the randomness of Overwatch works against you.
These strategies contribute to the "consistent randomness" I alluded to earlier, and which were a part of the model's ability to slowly but reliably beat some of the best players in the world.
Genuine, verifiable randomness—think of it as the property possessed by a sequence of numbers that makes it impossible to predict the next number in the sequence—is extremely hard to come by.
The pruney randomness of its front surface is contrapuntally at odds with the orderliness of a pair of inverted triangles — one protruding, the other recessed — that dominate the work's upper and lower registers.
The randomness of three dice shot some of baseball's chaos into it; pitchers determining the outcome reflected how the sport actually works; real stats from all the players brought it down to earth.
It fills me with a kind of wonder at life — at the ways in which tiny coincidences and their consequences shape it, and how we adjust our own narratives to absorb this randomness.
The reason that no less than Steve Jobs was onstage that day talking about randomness was that Apple was introducing a fresh new feature called "Smart Shuffle" that gave people what they wanted.
With no head-to-head meetings remaining with the Red Sox, this Yankees team may have to settle for a wild-card playoff spot and the randomness of a one-game play-in.
And Travis Wall's choreography, which shuffles the nine-member cast as if it were a deck of cards, emphasizes the notion of randomness, the sense that what happens here might happen to anyone.
The creators of ProtonMail, a security-minded email service, say multi-word passphrases are a solution to the problem that "we humans are bad at creating randomness, and we're bad at remembering things."
You can push it to the edge of what is legible, acceptable, even physically possible because there are processes, there's randomness inherent in the world and both acquisition and development of the photograph.
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The seeming randomness of a car bomb here and an explosion in a market there belied the calculated, rational nature of the Viet Cong's terrorism as a primary tactic in its war strategy.
"Randomness and juxtaposition were to be the guiding principles in his work in the second half of the 1970s," wrote according to author David Buckley in Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story.
FaceApp, which did not respond to our request for comment on what it did to poor Winston, occasionally does work successfully on dogs, further highlighting the randomness of outcomes when fed non-human faces.
As kappa increases, more randomness is introduced into the function that constructs the curves and the curves turn more unruly, while obeying the rule that they can bounce off of, but never cross, themselves.
Using an algorithm that ranked randomness and controlling for characteristics like gender, language and education levels, the researchers found the ability to act randomly peaked at age 25, on average, and declined from there.
All possibilities are equally probable on this show about the utter randomness of the universe and utter beauty of beautiful people, which means it's never too late to go back and fix something stupid.
This element of randomness means that even if, say, an elephant was favored to win 80-20 in a match against a hippo, the hippo could still score an upset with a lucky roll.
Even RT, the little-watched English-language spinoff, looks pretty good, undermined only by the randomness of the commentators who the channel Skypes in from their mothers' basements in the service of propaganda goals.
Manipulating natural processes captures an element of surprise and randomness, but the darker realities of human influence on the environment come out in the form of plastiglomerates, hybrid rocks that form around plastic waste.
Without context, you're just some random person who came and told someone they fell from [heaven] or some randomness, and if you mess it up you look worse and it seems like an insult.
It was shocking not just for its randomness, but for having occurred in Canada, a country which has led even other liberal democracies in its openness to the world and to immigrants and refugees.
In 2008, Pakistani militants killed 166 people in Mumbai, India, attacking what experts call "soft" targets: places such as hotels and train stations that are populated but, because of their seeming randomness, rarely defended.
The allure is obvious: the slow tension of locking a ball into place, the hypnotic randomness of a tiny metal sphere bouncing around the table, the subtle dance of mental predictions with gut instinct.
The government has signaled for years that it is trying to gain stronger control over concerns such as eye problems, playing time and "loot boxes," or in-app purchases with an element of randomness.
Randomness and uncertainty rule, causes are not guaranteed to be linked to effects, and an electron or other subatomic entity can be everywhere or nowhere, a wave or a particle, until someone measures it.
But there is something she can answer: If it were randomness alone ("God rolling the dice"), then how likely would it be that people's cholesterol levels came out as they did in this study?
This weird qubits-are-equations-until-you-measure-them-and-then-they're-like-bits-again-except-their-values-might-have-some-innate-randomness math could be useful for problems that are traditionally hard for computers.
"Users of Excel's 'rand' function have been using random numbers from an unknown and undocumented RNG of unknown period that is not known to pass any standard tests of randomness," he said of the process.
There's too much randomness in basketball, and it's hard to expect any team to win five games in a row against increasingly difficult competition to reach the title game, regardless of how good they are.
If popping off at them keeps us from raging elsewhere when we try to make sense of the randomness that leads to success or failure, then we might as well thank them for their service.
Humanity's need to incessantly document our captivity on Earth gives me introspection into my own absolute meaninglessness within the universe and the beautiful randomness of our planet which grew our exuberant purposeful species into existence.
This exhibition stints on his 16753s work to concentrate on his abstractions of the last 20 years, such as the mighty "Cage" sextet (2006), whose streaks of greens, silvers and yellows reconcile skill and randomness.
The randomness of his death put a fitting bookend on this latest paroxysm of violence in the bleak saga of Gaza-Israeli dysfunction, which began Monday afternoon and had run its course by Tuesday afternoon.
In "The Seven-Ri Ferry at Atsuta, Miya" (1855), Hiroshige harmonizes human figures on the seashore with the unassuming randomness of docked and unmoored boats under a sky dominated by atmospheric bands of crystalline color.
That she finds his wrists sexy and that he likes the very parts of her body she most disdains are happy aspects of the same dreadful randomness that makes even the deepest love feel provisional.
Lee Merritt, a Philadelphia-based lawyer representing Jazmine's family, said on Saturday he believed the shooting had the markings of a hate crime, in part because of the "randomness and unprovoked nature" of the attack.
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At best, astrology gives people a sense of control in a chaotic world and helps them relate to others by ascribing personality traits and life's seeming randomness to star signs and the movements of planets.
All of which leads to this: while down the stretch last year, he seemed to be an especially vivid example of the baseball's wild and thrilling randomness, Daniel Murphy now seems to be the real thing.
Seeing the world in infrared isn't exactly new, but the odd colors of the palm trees mixed with the stillness of the people and the total randomness of the Strip makes the effect seem especially eerie.
Iris scans aren't completely fool-proof — and even Samsung won't say outright that they're more secure than fingerprint scanning — but some researches have pointed out that the randomness in irises make them more difficult to forge.
My wife has O.C.D., but even she appreciates that books should live on a shelf with a level of randomness that makes a search slightly difficult while increasing the chances you will stumble on something else.
Or it may be that the horserace changed in those few days, or that one pollster or the other did a better job of not violating the randomness assumptions on which all these statistics are based.
"'The Black Swan' provides practical guidance against 'our blindness with respect to randomness' in financial markets with parallels to highly regulated industries," said Mariya Filipova, 35, vice president of innovation at Anthem, who recommends the book.
Along with his composer/partner John Cage, Cunningham also cast away choice, introducing structured randomness to dance-making, and eventually, in turning to computer-aided composition, he threw aside even the way his own body moved.
What's more, this particular postseason seemed to prey on players and managers' desires to compensate for the randomness with sheer will, to swing bigger and throw harder and make more moves, to tinker their way to certainty.
The "forklift song" is a longstanding internet meme that combines the show's essential trademarks: bizarro bad movie fun; the hosts' tendency to lean into that bizarro randomness, rather than away from it; and a bunch of singing.
" Or as Nassim Nicholas Taleb put in his first book, "Fooled by Randomness": "One cannot judge a performance in any given field (war, politics, medicine, investments) by the results, but by the costs of the alternative (i.e.
There are no obvious patterns or discernible movements to the sculptures' choreography; here and there, a few coalesce into face-like configurations of yellow dots and darkened edges, but the overall effect is one of overwhelming randomness.
The randomness of the chance encounter, the romance, the voyeuristic thrill — it's a feel-good story that made the chaotic world we live in feel a little smaller, a little more friendly, and a little more hopeful.
When can democracy be direct, when must it be representative, and how could randomness or sortition—selecting people to serve as public officials instead of electing them, as we do with juries—be put to good use?
As the 41st participants in the current Powers of Tau ceremony, the pair sampled a graphite moderator that was ejected from the core of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor during the 1986 meltdown as their source of randomness.
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In other words, the passwords you should be using are obscure, almost unexplainable phrases full of human randomness that make them easy to commit to memory and yet almost impossible for an automated system to make sense of.
Also, baseball games are the most random in outcome, so while a team can be consistent throughout an entire season, when it comes down to short playoff series, that randomness can make it easy for upsets to occur.
Since the pattern of these bits couldn't be guessed in advance, they were an effective source of randomness for the 12 Bell tests, which means the results of these tests weren't subject to the freedom-of-choice loophole.
Some decisions permanently change the game, layering features that making progress easier, but more often the game's randomness leads to recurring cards, and entertaining though potentially unfair storylines in which every option ultimately terminates with an unfulfilling death.
Tate's celebrity guaranteed that the media would have been interested in the case no matter what — but what made it a bonanza, with newspapers breathlessly reporting on every detail, was the brutality and apparent randomness of the killings.
For killing more enemies and completing more missions, players are rewarded with a never-ending progression of ever-so-slightly more powerful weapons and armor — or, in video game parlance, "loot" — which is doled out with algorithmic randomness.
I'm not sure the scenes in Chinatown needed the Asian-influenced music cues, to say nothing of the sheer goofy randomness of Stone's cure coming via some tea he buys from a guy in a back room somewhere.
On the other hand, he made achingly plain, there are some things you can't buy your way out of: the frailty of life, the randomness of nature, the strangling terror of a parent with a deathly ill baby.
By restricting his means of expression and concentrating his warring factions (randomness and control, formalism and anti-formalism) to the point of implosion, Ringe maximizes his paintings' power while streamlining their receptivity to an expansive array of meanings.
"The statistical projections would say that there's a wide range of how a guy can perform, and maybe that's due to randomness or luck, but it may be due to other things like comfort or effort level," he said.
That's arguably more troubling than a guaranteed summer of violence, as randomness has a tendency to lull us into a false sense of security when it contradicts feared outcomes, and then to bite us with the unexpected and unmanageable.
But what's especially troubling about the Kalamazoo deaths is that there doesn't seem to be any motive or even a whiff of logic connecting the shootings, a degree of randomness that left the western Michigan city desperate for answers.
The challenge is the randomness; moles may appear at every hole in the next step, requiring the player to be highly focused and once you miss the hitting time, then the probability of the entire game crash will increase.
Because these are Democrats, no one is likely to complain -- at least right now -- about the randomness by which the debate fields will be set assuming there are too many credible candidates for one stage (and there will be).
It exuded the teeming, democratic randomness of the city — see the immense broadsheets of the time, with their acres of close-set columns, each one crammed with stories, each one clamoring for attention like orphans at a train window.
This week the online video game Rust launched a long-publicized plan to permanently assign players random avatars as black, white, male, or female characters in an attempt to simulate the randomness of gender and identity assignation in nature.
Historically, the most enduring and popular memes have tended to combine edgy humor, layered in-jokes that require multiple levels of understanding to be effective, and an element of absurdity or surrealism that reflects something about the internet's randomness at large.
Then comes the next loophole: What if the random-number generator determining the measurement angle isn't really random; what if what we see as randomness has actually been predetermined by the laws of physics that brought humans to this point?
But a crime with no discernible motive besides rage and no particular pattern beside absolute randomness causes a particular kind of dread in a city where strangers often find themselves side by side in subway cars or on crowded sidewalks.
What contributes to the system's security is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, a much-touted quantum rule which, in this case, guarantees that an eavesdropper would disrupt the system's randomness, because intercepting and measuring a given photon forces it into a given polarisation.
There's also an element of randomness that adds to the thrill, mixing with the idea that she has to trust in her own instincts and the power that's guiding them, even when everything around her is telling her she's wrong.
But in a 68-team tournament, with teams having to win six straight games against increasingly difficult competition in order capture the title, it's very likely that the laws of randomness will kick in and knock the best team out.
Although Louis C.K. has expressed displeasure with the cut that reached theaters, the shambles today endures as a spectacle of go-for-broke randomness, with the potential to prompt dissertations from pop-culture historians, cinema-studies majors and perhaps linguistics Ph.D.s.
Several psychological studies in Israel have found that people habituate quickly to threats, making adjustments to daily life — keeping children at home, for example, rather than sending them to summer camp — and adopting dark humor about the randomness of the threat.
Leyner makes the case fairly late in the book for a kind of meaning through randomness: In the same way that tarot cards, taken in a group, signify something, a burst of vivid, unconnected images can leave a powerful impression.
The new experiment is more or less the same, but instead of using normal stars as their source of randomness for quantum measurements, the researchers used light from two ancient quasars that were 7.8 and 12.2 billion light years away.
It's interesting to think about: Turner's playoff dominance is either a symptom of the randomness that rules everything around us, or a small piece of evidence that when it comes to baseball, there are mysterious forces at play beyond human comprehension.
But I put it to you that as gatekeepers' power has diminished, and the number of would-be directors, CEOs and pundits has skyrocketed, while the costs of trying have shrunk — randomness has become a more and more important factor.
Whether an effective or virtual free will exists just because of the randomness of the universe, or whether it's a question of nature versus nurture is — every person we've talked to has a different take on what the identity is.
Though what brings these characters together is a job that seems like the height of randomness, they soon realize its deeper meaning — they each carry their own baggage, after all, and by beginning to share it, they solidify a friendship.
The flip side of randomness is found on the gallery's two main floors, where Landy seems to be rushing in to fill the vacuum he created with Break Down by vacuuming up every political slogan and rant he can find.
The death of Ms. Marcotte, a marketing account manager at Google in New York City, caused alarm in Massachusetts and beyond for its apparent randomness and its striking resemblance to the death of a jogger in Queens five days before.
What's surprising is that stability around the average and the seeming randomness have occurred during a succession of extraordinary events — a housing boom, financial crisis, quantitative easing (QE) monetary stimulus amounting to 20 percent of GDP and trillion-dollar government deficits.
The human, all too human, neuroses laid bare in Monzó's pithy stories can be discomfiting to read for the nerves they strike — the lies we tell to get by, the rationalizations and hypocrisies, the forbidden thoughts, the randomness of events.
When you welcome the randomness in your life, you never know how it will pay off later: For example, once one of us said hello to someone in an elevator, and that person ended up being a large client a couple years later.
These attacks involved totemic elements for an American audience: The apparent randomness of the shooting victims in each case made them seem as if they could have happened to anyone, imparting the sense of imminent and universal threat posed by mass shootings.
However, the current state of watermarks leaves image protection in a sad state, they say, and even just a little bit of the right kind of randomness can go a long way in keeping photographs safe from theft in the short term.
Even as someone who's not head over heels for systems-driven games—I respect games like Far Cry 2, for example, far more than I enjoy playing them—Breath of the Wild found a balance between randomness, creativity, and structure that worked.
"It's clear that the increased frequency of attacks that we've seen over the summer and also the sort of remarkable randomness of the attacks runs the risk that consumers, based on previous incidents, seem to decide to stay at home," Kirkegaard said.
These examples illustrate that in polling or any other type of sampling, there are two separate components of measurement error: the statistical error (normal fluctuations caused by pure randomness) and sampling bias (error introduced by inadvertent, or unavoidable, sampling of a biased population).
It's money to live on, but it's not lavish, and things got weird when, for reasons likely due to randomness more than anything else, donations dropped a full thousand dollars from one month to the next in early 2015, from $4,000 to $3,000.
Or is there nothing connecting them other than randomness, or luck — the same luck that allows one to live in New York or Vienna and not Mosul or Raqqa, or to be born in Bavaria in the 1960s instead of the 1930s?
It helps that the items aren't focused on violence (there's only one real weapon, the sword), and you have to love the utter chaotic randomness of a character — the Bat — whose sole purpose is to grab stuff and leave you other stuff.
Negan is supposed to loom larger than life and appear unpredictable and terrifying, but in a world where the mechanisms of life and death are already so cruel and random, his particular brand of cruel randomness just feels like weird plot inconsistency.
It's a show that frequently sets up elaborate plot points, only to pour them out onto a bed and dirty up the entire space with very little rhyme or reason — and it's that very element of randomness that makes the show so electric.
From there, the concept of randomness is to restore those sounds to the role of the protagonist, accompanied by an intentionally misleading language, to the point where the material being relayed to the listener isn't comfortable even for the artist who created it.
But even apart from the usual warnings about statistical error and randomness (the true rate of job creation could turn out to be either much higher or much lower), the numbers are a good bit better than that single data point suggests.
But I stubbornly cling to the antiquated notion that every team has a crunchtime persona, good or bad, no matter how many times analytics experts tell me there is more randomness to one-possession basketball games than old-guard reporters care to acknowledge.
The executions moved in waves, and once a neighborhood had been purged it could then expect a measure of respite, until someone committed an infraction of some kind, because infractions, although often alleged with a degree of randomness, were invariably punished without mercy.
But even after a wake, in which her daughter was dressed all in white, and a funeral, in Ecuador, she said the randomness of the death — in which a person with no enemies or vices was taken violently — remained the abiding mystery.
Sandler projects deranged optimism, pushing his luck with such a desperate lack of shame that Ratner feels both real and dislocated — as absurd as any Sandler character, but now with all the randomness grounded in the peculiar Jewish world of the diamond district.
But while no one was looking, an insidious countervailing force — randomness — set in, mostly on classical radio, where, it often seems, any work, played by anyone, can arbitrarily follow any other without transition or comment, so long as it is all certifiably "classical" music.
The ESC Game Theater's titles trend toward Mad Libs-style randomness: sports like football and basketball mashed up with feudal warfare and vacuum cleaners; a race to put hats on animals; and a game called Fruit Tattoo, in which players smash fruit to acquire tattoos.
In what must have been a clever napkin idea, Holachek decided it would be brilliant to combine the randomness of Giphy with Microsoft's Emotion API, which uses machine learning to detect between eight distinct, universal emotions (anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness, and surprise).
It's an open question as to whether or not a pattern even exists, or whether or not mathematicians will ever crack the code of primes, but most mathematicians agree that there's a certain randomness to the distribution of prime numbers that appear back-to-back.
In an article due to be published in Transactions on Privacy and Security, Ehsan Toreini, a security expert at the University of Newcastle, and his colleagues, describe a way to turn that randomness into a "fingerprint" that is unique to any given sheet of paper.
"My bots are based in serendipity; the ones that respond to tweets are not trained to respond to any particular content of that tweet, and the joy of interacting with them arises from whatever pattern the human intuits from this randomness," thricedotted wrote to me.
But where old-school MST23K covered a vast pantheon of sociocultural knowledge — one of the series' greatest delights was the sheer randomness and breadth of the cultural references floating around the Satellite of Love — you won't find nearly as much esoterica in the new series.
To this end, a pair of researchers from MIT, David Scott Hunter and Tauhid Zaman, have developed a framework for venture capital investment that is based on the randomness of Brownian motion coupled to large volumes of data collected on startup founders, investors, and performance.
"The common challenge of using deterministic returns — 63 percent static return year in and year out — is that there is no consideration for the real world and the likely randomness that will be experienced," said Kevin Loffredi, senior product manager of annuity solutions at Morningstar.
At the time, I wrote that this show brought to the fore "the beguiling sense of inevitability that the sculptures achieve in spite of their components' apparent randomness," a sentence that can be seen as a perversely accurate description of what Landy is up to.
The deaths of Kid Sampson and McWatt, shocking in the novel because of the distance from which they're seen, are up close and bloody onscreen and correspondingly prosaic; in the age of cancel culture, the series chooses to cancel the horrifying randomness of the book.
His psychosexual compulsion, sublimated in his paintings more than in his drawings, lead him to make off-the-wall images scattered with even stranger details that are convincing despite their seeming randomness; we identify with his dark need to destroy the very order he's creating.
Taken together, the two tapes offer a testament to the power of what sound art can do—to look to the past or the future, and change the way you hear a specific set of sonic cues—drawing structure from randomness or momentum from stillness.
Instead of submitting to the fate of commoditized subject or capitalist tool, the flaneur just wanders the city, scoping out randomness, changeability and ephemerality at every turn and intersection, stockpiling time itself, as Benjamin puts it, the way batteries store energy for future untold uses.
As a battle royale game, Fortnite comes with an inherent level of randomness: players don't know who they're going up against when they drop into a certain zone, what items they'll have at their disposal, or how the circle will shrink over the course of the game.
" Michael Daniel, former cybersecurity coordinator for the White House, told the committee that by late August 2016, he had "already personally concluded that the Russians had attempted to intrude in all 50 states, based on the extent of the activity and the apparent randomness of the attempts.
So rather than beat up Kansas' Bill Self for his supposed postseason failures or get into an argument about which team is truly better—an argument that can only be solved by statistics and hypotheticals—enjoy the randomness of the NCAA Tournament and cheer for chaos.
Though we preserved that in the center of the piece, we eventually opted to have moments that were a little bit more linear, and some moments that carried with them some randomness and playful messiness, which made the piece a little more watchable, and less stubbornly conceptual.
To scientists, however, he will be forever known for finding a relation between gravity — in the form of Einstein's general theory of relativity — that bends the cosmos and determines its destiny and the atomic randomness that lives inside it, swept helplessly along in the river of time.
You begin to tire after a while of the seeming randomness of events, as the leads appear dressed in maids' outfits or wedding gear or in complementary black lingerie that directly entices Mr. Dillane to fondle his co-star's bottom — and so he does on cue.
Instead of hewing to the geometric formalism of stencils, randomness began to reign, perhaps inspired by enamel kitchen "speckleware" — first sold in the 1870s and still found on lobster pots and clam steamers — or the new vogue for spotted linoleum, invented in England around the same time.
"Thus, critical evidence of crimes now rests entirely outside the reach of any law enforcement anywhere in the world, and the randomness of where within an intricate web of servers the requested content resides at a particular moment determines its accessibility to law enforcement," it adds.
Death is played by a sweetly doddery Marylouise Burke, and the role of Everybody—along with those of Friendship, Kinship and Stuff—is assigned by lottery to a diverse cast at each performance (yielding 120 possible combinations; a thoughtful gimmick in a play about the randomness of death).
"Standing there last night, looking at that scene, I was forced to think about the futility of the whole thing -- the randomness of it -- as it began to become clear to us that there was no nexus between the victim and the suspect," Snyder said in a press conference.
A pair of computer scientists from Korea University, Shinil Kwon and Sungdeok Cha, has developed a new image-based CAPTCHA system that achieves this fundamental resistance by injecting temporary randomness into image sets, with the result being challenges that may have different solutions at different points in time.
There seems to be a bit more glue than I like to see in Mr. Zhou's puzzle (I'm looking at you, ANNI, APR, VEE, AGA, DES, SRS) and a bit of randomness (OPEN RANGE, GREEN PEAS and RAP DUOS), but I think the theme presentation far outweighs the glue.
That data is then converted to numbers jumbled up with a couple other sources of randomness in other parts of the world, like a Geiger counter and a chaotic pendulum, and is then fed into an algorithm with a variety of other sources to create some really intense cryptography.
A belief in the paranormal gives the world intention, negating the randomness with fate and purpose — like, instead of it just being circumstance, maybe the reason bad things keep happening to you is because of a lingering spirit or some bad luck you've picked up in your travels.
Pierce and Miller were participating in the Powers of Tau, an ongoing cryptographic "ceremony" wherein each participant samples some source of randomness and uses the resulting numbers to generate part of a cryptographic key that can be used by anyone on the Zcash network to keep their transaction private.
"The Lonesome Friends of Science," for example, predicts the end of the world; "Caravan of Fools" links wealth with idiocy; the music video for "Summer's End" turns a haunting but elliptical song about randomness and failed dreams into a ballad for loved ones lost to the opioid epidemic.
If your luggage is no longer fit for travel but isn't totally unusable, keep it and use it for extra storage in a closet or under your bed (it looks way tidier than putting your things in trash bags or assembling it into a terrifying Jenga tower of randomness).
Monod came down on the side of chance, proposing that the cellular chemistry that seems so fundamental is just "randomness caught on the wing," a grab bag of molecules that happened to be around when the first cellular membranes spontaneously formed, trapping a drop of the primordial waters.
In all this talk of fictional death, it's easy to lose sight of something primal: In real life, death doesn't really work the way it does on TV. I complained above about the randomness of fictional deaths that seem mostly thrown in to goose the storyline or provide shock value.
In a nutshell, he argued that an "appreciable fraction" of the genetic variation within and between species is the result of genetic drift — that is, the effects of randomness in a finite population — rather than natural selection, and that most of these differences have no functional consequences for survival and reproduction.
The only randomness is that there's a small chance that buildings will be resistant to damage, but that chance is too low ever count on (which means that when a structure does shield itself after you failed to, a wave of relief washes over you.) Despite that transparency, you'll make mistakes.
As the lives of its disparate characters — mothers and daughters, a father and a son — weave together, "there is a sense of human connections becoming stronger and thicker, of a fragile moral order coalescing beneath the randomness and cruelty of modern life," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times.
Twitter is now testing with a small number of iOS users a homescreen button that lets you instantly switch from its algorithmic timeline that shows the best tweets first but out of order to the old reverse chronological feed that only shows people you follow — no tweets liked by friends or other randomness.
The Terror turns this basic idea into an opportunity for a grim but rewarding story about men confronting death, men confronting the strictures of a masculine code that can't protect them from the unknown, and men confronting the terrible randomness of nature, here represented as a massive demon/god/thing called the Tuunbaq.
In its function, it feels like a world founded on the idea that if you can just imbue it with enough randomness, enough player-independent activity and interaction, enough probabilistic cogs and gears to let random characters and random story beats to fit together, we can imbue that world with life as well.
And because the thought of that randomness is more than a little terrifying, it's natural that we ascribe deep meaning to the thought that everything went just so, that we get to exist, even as all of the other us-es that might have been live as shadows haunting our occasional speculations.
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The United States is far from a perfect place, but the right to travel that Americans take for granted -- the right to cross so many of the world's borders, enabled simply by a US passport to which we are entitled by the randomness of birth -- is a distant dream for most of the world.
Shrines hidden throughout levels can toss in more elements of randomness, like the Shrine of Order that converts all items held of one rarity level into a stack of a single item of that same rarity level—a chance to slim down your inventory while rolling the dice on the effectiveness of the results.
In fact, while aggregate qualifying may have some supporters who think it can serve to deliver more randomness, what is fails to take into account is that the ultra-competitive nature of F1 – allied to the technical direction it has taken – means that what we hope for and what is delivered diverge a great deal.
But one wonders whether capturing the perfect photo in a museum (selfie or otherwise) precludes visitors from feeling that something that occurs when marveling at an almost alive Michelangelo sculpture, a hypnotic, emotive Rothko masterpiece, an expanse of canvas covered in blues and grays, the massive randomness of which makes you tingle with anxiety and awe.
It's the game that transitioned "roguelike" from meaning a type of tile-based RPG, to being a label we apply to all kinds of different games now, because its meaning has been refined down into a specific design ethos (built around randomness and permadeath) and not the whole panoply of mechanics that Rogue or Nethack happened to employ.
Not a jot of randomness is allowed within the bounds of the movie, and everything is made to match; a splash of red paint on the wall of Jonathan's bedroom, at home, prefigures the ragged hole in a wall through which the machine gun is aimed, as well as the bloodshed that it may yet unleash.
It turned out to be a fruitful detour: Twombly's North African sketchbooks now look like a set of plans for his holistic symbolism, pages full of seemingly random symbols and scribbles that, seen together, charted a new territory for what painting could be, a kind of haphazardness that went beyond even the ostensible randomness of Abstract Expressionism.
But even so, scientists will confront this sobering truth: Although the physical processes that drive a fault to the brink of an earthquake may be predictable, the actual triggering of a quake—the growth of a small seismic disturbance into full-blown fault rupture—is believed by most scientists to contain at least an element of randomness.
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Cam Newton has nine touchdowns and ten interceptions in eight games and the Panthers are headed toward the playoffs because football is a crapshoot like no other sport, and players don't matter, for we are all part of a human experiment known as life where chaos and randomness rule us despite our best efforts to seek control.
Even if we don't come away from "Shoot-Up-Able" feeling better about the terrifying randomness of gun violence and mass shootings, we can at least know we're not alone in nursing very real fear surrounding those issues, admit that it's fucked up that "these things happen," and find a real way to talk about them rather than delaying the conversation for another day.
The inclusive, value-neutral swath of destruction perpetuated by Break Down can be seen as a form of both randomness and inevitability: the only thing that these doomed objects had in common was that they took up space inside the personal province of Michael Landy, no matter how they fell into his possession — whether he made them, bought them, found them, inherited them, or received them as gifts.
" Presented at New York Theater Workshop and at the Tribeca Film Festival, the piece gave viewers the chance to wander through sections of Mr. Sobelle's clutter-filled set and, using smartphone technology, watch and learn more about what was inside the many boxes and drawers — further fleshing out, visually and aurally, what Ben Brantley in The New York Times called the "connective poetry in the seeming randomness of what we hoard.

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