Comments on: Perceiving Randomness

By: Random Links XXXXI « Random Musings of a Deranged Mind

Random Links XXXXI « Random Musings of a Deranged Mind — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:14:15 +0000

[...] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/04/06/perceiving-randomness/ [...]

By: Looking For Patterns - Tips for Creative Problem Solving « ZenStorming - Where Science Meets Muse…

Thu, 07 May 2009 01:25:28 +0000

[...] another perspective on patterns check out this blog over at [...]

By: John

John — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:14:40 +0000

Why do you believe that random-without-correlations is ‘more random’ than random-with-correlations? The output, for instance, of a Markov chain can have any correlation length whatsoever.

But you’re not alone. My physics colleagues almost universally say random when they mean uncorrelated.

By: Perception, Piero and Pollock « In the Dark

Perception, Piero and Pollock « In the Dark — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:17:57 +0000

[...] put me in an artistic frame of mind so, to follow up my post on randomness (and the corresponding parallel version on cosmic variance), I thought I’d develop some thoughts about the nature of perception and [...]

By: Brendon Brewer

Brendon Brewer — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:10:08 +0000

>>the two pictures both have zero entropy, since they are both exact states and not represented by probability distributions<<

Yay! I’ve been saying this for ages but it rarely seems to get through. Another example: a data set is never Gaussian.

By: jpd

jpd — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:56:51 +0000

Carl Pilkington seems to be a supported of Boltzmann brains.

By: Arrows and Demons « In the Dark

Arrows and Demons « In the Dark — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:57:31 +0000

[...] and Demons My recent post about randomness and non-randomness spawned a lot of comments over on cosmic variance about the nature of entropy. I thought I’d add a bit about that topic [...]

By: » Randomness is the materialist’s delusion

» Randomness is the materialist’s delusion — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:57:16 +0000

[...] article states that we humans look for patterns where they don’t exist. To prove their argument, [...]

By: Alfonso

Alfonso — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:27:43 +0000

May be humans try to find a patern were SEAMS to be random
What we usually think is random (like the stars in the sky) is not
For that reason we are good finding patterns were they are but we are not good at generating random series

By: Randomness: our brain deceive us « Mirror Image

Randomness: our brain deceive us « Mirror Image — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:56:29 +0000

[...] random, and one is not: Which is which ? The thing is that left image is not random, and right is. Sean Carroll from Cosmic Variance write: “Humans are not very good at generating random sequences; when asked to come up with a [...]