Not exact matches
The ultimate
randomness of the Universe and all its bodies flying about via the process of «gravity» shows quite clearly that if you get in the way of gravity
as it exists in the outer region or
by chance we will get hit
by something huge is NOT a good design.
The apparent
randomness as well
as the struggling and unpredictable meanderings that science sees in evolution, and which have caused so much theological controversy, are just what we should expect if the world is in some way left to be itself
by the non-interfering goodness of a self - emptying God.
Some scientists have so struggled with the extreme improbability of the conditions for life resulting from
randomness that they go so far
as to dream up theories of parallel universes to explain the problems presented
by simple math on the likelihood of random chance.
there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will» in a worldview shaped
by cause and effect; the only place for «will» to retreat to is the zone of true
randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will
as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or not this atom of uranium chooses to fission in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the atom's) will whether it splits or remains whole,
as for the proposition that it's random chance.
If all is to be conceived
by analogy with our human nature, then either Spinoza is right and the eternal, immutable essence of the cosmic soul necessitates everything in the cosmic body, and there is no chance,
randomness, or genuinely open alternatives either within the world or
as between this and other possible worlds; or there is freedom both in our decisions and in God's.
It is the combination of
randomness and the winnowing process called natural selection that is offered
as an answer
by neo-Darwinists.
Claiming that we falsify reality if we divide it into mind and matter, into living and non-living, he said: «consciousness (which we take to include thought, feeling, desire, will etc.) is to be comprehended in terms of the implicate order, along with reality
as a whole».7 Thus the
randomness of sub-atomic elements may be linked with the creative freedom exercised
by human consciousness.
by focusing on results (which come with a degree of
randomness that bites everyone at some time)
as opposed to play.
But a new advance on a method known
as a
randomness extractor makes it easier for machines to roll the dice, generating truly random numbers
by harvesting
randomness from the...
But a new advance on a method known
as a
randomness extractor makes it easier for machines to roll the dice, generating truly random numbers
by harvesting
randomness from the environment.
This was originally developed
by physicists to quantify lost energy in mechanical systems, such
as a steam engine, but entropy can also be used to measure the range or
randomness of a system.
Engage removes the
randomness factor of online dating
by providing a social networking platform that allows your friends to be your matchmaker,
as well
as a voting system to rate the behavior of Engage community members.
-- «Amadeus» (1984): This was not a Mozart biography but a meditation and speculation on the
randomness and cruelty of genius, featuring irrepressible, over-the-top performances
by Tom Hulce
as Mozart and F. Murray Abraham
as Salieri, his rival.
In his book Fooled
by Randomness, Nassim Taleb defined Black Swan (the term refers to the once prevalent old world belief that all swans are white, which was proven false when black swans were discovered in Australia)
as a rare event that is (1) unexpected (2) carries an extreme impact and (3) believed to be predictable in hindsight.
I think you may have misconstrued the meaning of
randomness as explained correctly
by Nial.
One of our level designers on the multiplayer side had a lot of experience
as a single - player level designer and was absolutely frustrated
by the
randomness.
While the overall acoustic effect is similar from sphere to sphere
as the speed of rotation remains constant, the sound produced
by each is distinct, affected
by the
randomness of its movement.
As described in the exhibition's catalog by Dana Miller, The Whitney Museum's Director of the Collection, DeFeo's experiments, which the artist described as play, «meant not only taking risks, but also, at key moments, sharing authorship with forces of nature, randomness, or accident.&raqu
As described in the exhibition's catalog
by Dana Miller, The Whitney Museum's Director of the Collection, DeFeo's experiments, which the artist described
as play, «meant not only taking risks, but also, at key moments, sharing authorship with forces of nature, randomness, or accident.&raqu
as play, «meant not only taking risks, but also, at key moments, sharing authorship with forces of nature,
randomness, or accident.»
Getting the peers to acknowledge the multivariate coherence will be a monumental feat
as it takes away their modeling freedom
by wiping out the patently false assumption of
randomness.
Multimoment multiscale spatiotemporal integration reveals nonrandom harmonic pattern - summary discontinuities, exposing the comedy tragically advocated
by deceitful & / or naive theoreticians who are in part constrained
by a dominant culture that clings seemingly religiously to maladaptive traditions such
as unjustifiable assumptions of
randomness, independence, uniformity, linearity, etc. that are routinely misapplied (for example to conveniently render abstract conceptions mathematically tractable).
There could be a degree of
randomness on short timescales
as regards any ongoing modulation
by other variable or chaotic influences but they remain present in the background nonetheless.
It seems to me that truly «wicked problems» are problems of the sort that are characterized
by a type of unstructured and chaotic
randomness, such
as we find in life, that is very difficult or impossible to analyze using ordinary math or experiment.
Random.org uses a «true random number generator» (TRNG) instead to produce
randomness, specifically atmospheric noise
as picked up
by a radio and fed to their computer.