In the real world, probability is a tough thing to characterize. If I roll a die, what does it mean to say that it has a one-sixth chance of coming up 5? We say that the outcome is random because we ...
MADS Haahr is in no doubt. “Generating randomness is not a task that should be left to humans,” he says. You might expect him to say that. A computer scientist at Trinity College Dublin, he is the ...