[onerng talk] Chaoskey presentation at LCA2017

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Fri Jun 16 05:57:38 BST 2017


bsr <presspound at buckeye-access.com> writes: 

>When I look at the noisy image on the right I see three dots with three
>vertical traces and also a weak horizontal line, although he says there are
>two dots. The point is that the image is clearly not random upon a quick
>visual inspection

Humans are very good at seeing patterns where there are none.  Look up at a
bunch of completely random stars and some of us will see animals, mythological
creatures, and all sorts of other stuff.  Look at random noise for long enough
and and you'll see lines, curves, whatever.

If DieHarder says it's random, it's probably random.

Peter.

                


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