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Thoughts on Randomness

February 28th, 2010 No Comments

1) Randomness is, in a sense, a measure of compressibility. A physically random system is one whose dynamics we cannot predict and that we must simulate in order to know. It is temporally incompressible. Of course, in reality, physical processes tend to exhibit degrees of randomness, so that we can say some [...]

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