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Yes, this is a bit of fun. The test is hard to pass. Almost as if the goalposts were on wheels. As well as the test, the blog post links to my story C-Score, which is itself is als…

The BBC was always pretty establishment, but now they're very afraid of seeming “left wing”, and so we get this…

That's what you need to do. Most people think streaks are unlikely, which biases people to void even small streaks. The algorithm expects that, so to fool the algorithm initially, …

Whee, I did pretty well against it, managed to be at around 30%. https://imgur.com/a/GmaE45k (And no, I didn't write a Perl script, or have multiple goes to game the score, I just …

Interesting critique. I'm curious if there's some other nice-and-simple framework you'd recommend?

The article is a misrepresentation, apparently "believe in a higher power or God" has risen somewhat. This is different from excitement about organized religion , which seems to be…

It's not 100% more — 100% would be twice as much. In this case, we've gone from none at all to having some, which is infinitely more.

Does this mean that the Y combinator, Y = λf.(λx.f (x x)) (λx.f (x x)), is not a combinator?

This has nothing to do with cryptographic security or predictability. This is about whether the output of the PRNG passes statistical tests for randomness. In a previous blog post …

It looks like they used an automated tool to add copyright notices to files in the repository. Probably were required to do that by legal. So it's not 100% faithful history, but cl…

The benchmark details are in the paper. It's a pretty ordinary Haswell PC.

Looking at the PCG paper, it shows that a basic XorShift generator doesn't pass statistical tests as it gets bigger. Basically, there are some tests it never passes no matter how b…

The graphs of failures don't show the PCG scheme because their number of failures is zero. The performance graphs show a whole bunch of PCG generators. You absolutely can predict t…

Apparently, both the Mersenne Twister and XorShift (which seem to be two of the popular RNGs people use these days) can't pass all statistical tests. (The Mersenne Twister is prett…