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Alt Text: Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician, won what's known as "the Nobel Prize of computing" for his work on randomness.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You jest but the kind of stuff this guy works on is actually really fascinating

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I believe it. I had a professor in college who said if he found a genie he would wish for 3 different sets of truly random data lol

[–] twack 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Would they still be random after the genie gave them to him?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Okay, Schrodinger