What If I Told You Random Isn't Random

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What If I Told You Random Isn't Random

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Taking the red pill of computer science truth here! Every developer thinks they're getting true randomness, but peek behind the curtain and you'll find deterministic algorithms with sneaky biases. That's why your dice roll simulator keeps giving 1s, your shuffle algorithm clumps similar songs together, and your procedurally generated maps have suspicious patterns. True randomness? In this economy? The machines are just pretending, and Morpheus here is dropping the hard truth that would make any cryptographer sweat.

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