The Skeptics Guide #926 - Apr 08 2023 (Ad Free)
Added 2023-04-08 14:55:45 +0000 UTCQuickie with Bob: Quantum Random Numbers; News Items: Treating Infections Without Antibiotics, The Science of Clogging, New Kind of Black Hole, First Cell Phone; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Feedback on AI; Science or Fiction
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The limitations of random number generation is very apparent when listening to music. Every app and Spotify always end up in random shuffle blackholes, no matter how large the list (hundreds to thousands of songs) they end up playing the same 35-50 songs, in a nearly predictable pattern. Using a regular computer, software engineers do not take advantage of one thing they have no control over, time. They have no control over the time a song is played. By including time elements into random generation, the numbers should no longer be pseudorandom, and playlists shouldn't wind up playing the same songs over and over and over... ad nauseum.
Asymetra
2023-04-18 09:27:02 +0000 UTCThank you for clarifying for all the difference between colonizing and settlement Steve. A very important distinction. Also, Bob... Keurig... smh
Logan Callen
2023-04-10 17:42:53 +0000 UTCI think Bob meant "vocally" not "verbally". The latter just means using words. I communicate verbally over my phone all the time -- mostly text and social media but sometimes vocally. Until next week, this has been your pendantic moment with Richard.
Richard Moore
2023-04-08 18:00:20 +0000 UTC
