Pseudorandom Bits

A backwater in the vast ocean of thought

  • Pseudorandom?

    The Web is made of bits. Here are some of my bits, added to those other bits. Bits of information, bits of my thoughts, bits of others' thoughts. Maybe they seem a bit random, but, who knows?

    "There must be some bits here somewhere."

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  • You should know

    Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." John 14:6 (NASB)

  • But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NASB)

  • "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36
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Hello, world!

Posted by Mike on November 21, 2007

Welcome to my blog. Everyone else seems to have one, so here’s mine. I almost had one going a few years ago, but I stalled out.

Why “Pseudorandom Bits”? To start, look at the left sidebar.

Of course, TheCookieJar was already in use as our family web site, not a blog. happylittlecookie was already taken. according to mike would have been too derivative. Other great names were already in use.

Since I have a background in math, Pseudorandom Bits seemed appropriate, and is the name I was going to use in my first blog a while back. Algorithmically speaking, computers don’t generate true random numbers, but use procedures to simulate a sequence of numbers with appropriate qualities of randomness. (Here’s something to try: The next time you’re in a group of people, ask them to pick a random integer in the range of 1 to 10, or 1 to 100. Odds are that you won’t get many even numbers picked. Even numbers often don’t seem random enough.) My thoughts aren’t really random, either, but who knows what the next one will be?

Please keep watching this site. I may have something to say another time.

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