Almost All Random Numbers Are Actually Fake

[@Thoughty2]

Thanks for watching and remember to try Dashlane free on your first device: www.dashlane.com/thoughty2

[@therock5878]

Hi Thoughty2 I’m the man behind the secret messages you have on all of your videos. If everyone can contact Thoughty2 and ask him about why he’s been doing this I can ask him why myself I’ve been trying to get in contact with you for a while.

[@bingbapLANGUAGE]

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[@spoopymug6760]

@@therock5878 ?

[@spoopymug6760]

3rd comment :)

[@michaelpearce8661]

Is Bitcoin still open for attack? Can your coins be stolen?

[@Jehayland]

“Forgive is our rage quits; as we forgive those who rage quit against us” that part killed me, lol!!

[@amentia]

I even said "amen" at the end... lmao

[@SG-to4mf]

"Pretending we are working, when in reality we are in our 5th straight hour lost in a youtube vortex" dayuuum Arran you're gunna make me cry now

[@Ndelema]

Luckily the center of a vortex is calm. I am not lost i am at the right spot

[@madongseoksbiceps]

just ask the girl at school who acts weird and quirky and says "ha im so random ahahah"

[@MowiWowi]

Good one😁

[@paulgoogol2652]

I know that girl. She is not as random as she claims because that is all she says and thinks.

[@gotbakingsoda5587]

Oh and the one that also says "I'm such a potat" kind of girl.

[@debarjandatta2170]

Good one 😂

[@nelsonx5326]

I don't get it. For real. Feel free to explain it to me.

[@ShiroiYuki.]

I've actually noticed that more people pick 7 when asked to mane a number between 1 and 10 but never realised that 10 was so low

[@Its_whats_his_face]

Technically 1 & 10 are not numbers you can chose. By using the word BETWEEN - eligible numbers would be 2 to 9. Think of it like a goal post in foot ball, 1 & 10 are the uprights, you can only kick the ball BETWEEN them or it is not counted, sure you can hit them but it needs to be deflected to pass in between them.

[@JarlBorg93]

Some people like Kevin Samuels actually says to his clients: 1-10 and you cannot pick 7.

[@AllynWrench]

2:50 Ok so who was the smartass? In 8,500 students asked to pick a number 1-10, somebody said 0 hahaha

[@earthtear9586]

Haha I thought that too 🤣

[@stolenlaptop]

They never specified integer numbers, I would've said 1.4167442132

[@medexamtoolscom]

I would have picked the square root of pi myself.

[@dropm8927]

diversity quotas...

[@earthtear9586]

In all fairness there's a 0 in 10

[@mikedavis6779]

Feel bad for whoever named ‘nonce generation’

[@ieuan._.ch4n945]

Yap

[@zifaa]

Lmao

[@DaleDix]

I don't know why I'm thinking of Ricky Gervais and the Oscars right now lmao

[@gordonsmith4884]

LMAO!

[@kristoffseisler2163]

"How do Computers Generate Random Numbers?" Was the original name of the video

[@MattiesGaming]

interesting

[@kennedyfrancis5875]

Yeah even I noticed

[@johndripper]

by using the time variable coz it never stays the same

[@kennedyfrancis5875]

@@johndripper he went back in time to change it 😂

[@kristoffseisler2163]

@@johndripper You mean like opening up a terminal and using the printed output of "date | md5sum" as your new password on that random new site you just thought of signing up for?

[@leysont]

Thoughty2: talks about hacking Also Thoughty2: shows HTML code in the background

[@_tr11]

Lol

[@corvo9406]

I thought of seven when he said pick a number from 1 to 10 lol

[@itsthemoustachepig8188]

Same

[@xtek200]

i thought of 10 now i feel special

[@ivartheboneless5969]

I always think 7 because it was always the number I forgot about when I was younger, completely skipped it even when I was counting just too say 7, I still missed it every time man. 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10

[@Miranox2]

RNGesus was not with you this day.

[@richardaitkenhead]

Snap

[@mikelmorrow4681]

As a kid my younger brother realized that I always chose 7 when asking him to choose a number between 1-10. I had been unaware of this until he pointed it out when we were preteens. Blew my mind

[@colinchristensen4398]

Most humans pick 7 when asked for 1-10 or to rate something 1-10 7 is almost always the answer

[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

"How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers?" "Why Is It Impossible to Think of a Random Number?" "How Random Numbers Stop the Internet From Falling Apart" "Why 7 Is the Least Random of All Numbers" "Why Is It So Difficult to Generate Random Numbers?" Projected next title: "Who is RNGesus?" on Christmas Day. Merry Andersonmas by the way.

[@Graeme_Lastname]

There's quite a few ways to get a PRNG, there's also ways to get random numbers without using a software generation approach.

[@jamiethompson6605]

The quest to finding the most click baity title

[@myscreen2urs]

What if Aran tried a random title generator? 🤔

[@silkwesir1444]

Not to forget "Why True Randomness Is Impossible" It seems like they alternate between the titles rather rapidly, have seen some of them more than once.

[@JonnyBgood123]

It pisses me off so much that he changes his title so often all the time. Trying so hard to click bait. Way too hard.

[@fizhouz328]

9:08 that's the best reference I have ever seen like seriously how did I never notice this Thoughty2 sounds like 42 and 42 is the answer to the meaning of life in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy nice dude.

[@john45217]

its because he used to dress like agent 42 from the hitman series

[@peterdavidasige8073]

Did you really not see that before? I can’t tell these days wether people are being sarcastic or not.

[@InnerEagle]

@@peterdavidasige8073 Being distracted is easy

[@nekorisakirisame1323]

RNGesus who lies in chances Hallowed be thy name Thy Luck be come Thy will be done as it is on competitive as it is on gacha Please give us this day, our daily drops And forgive us for the random crits As we forgive who spawnkilled us And lead us not into whaling, but deliver us from empty wallet Ramen

[@MTRBR-mp7wj]

*RAMEN*

[@aceundead4750]

Wait. We're supposed to forgive spawnkillers? No wonder my rng is shit. Do we also have to forgive modders?

[@Asakedia]

i'll use this as a copypasta. thank you very much xD

[@nekorisakirisame1323]

@@aceundead4750 hmm... depends on how you describe modders tho. -Single player modder is fine -Coop multi vs ai like risk of rain 2 and payday 2 is fine (if you dont like, you can just leave) -Competitive Multiplayer.... death to them, abusing and trolling them shall please the gacha gods and bring us plently 5 stars (And crits and whatever suit the needs)

[@sneakycloud3615]

aa yes the holy gospel of the rng church

[@bt70a9]

Did you know that Spotify had to reprogram their shuffle algorithm, because users reported that it didn't feel random enough. They often reported hearing songs in familiar patterns, so Spotify made the shuffle option less random, to make it feel more random

[@YummyRage]

Christmas miracle his mustache gave us more videos

[@jordanwood5992]

2020. Hahaha delete video

[@1SCme]

Thoughty2 - "You can't hack into the radioactive decay of Uranium." Oppenheimer - "Here, hold my slide rule" Gets $2 Billion from government, proceeds to call up even nerdier friends. Just Kidding.

[@Lewwyy]

Time machine mustache is the only logical explanation as to why Thoughty2 is so smart.

[@paulgoogol2652]

The moustache is an alien that controls people to speak through their mouth.

[@RonBest]

I doubt that we can truly know that some things are truly random. I think it was concluded they were truly random based off experiments conducted in the same way yielding diffrent result. But that does not mean it's random, just that we are unaware of one or more causes of effect. Assume that true randomness exists, then in theory if we were to rewind time without changing anything and press play, the universe would play out diffrently that it did the first time. Would be very strange if that's true, like watching the same movie on vhs twice but it ends diffrently the second time.

[@ChubakaSteven]

As long as you're kind and rewind it's all good

[@ninesquared81]

As far we're aware, quantum mechanics is truly random. We don't know what state a quantum superposition will be in until we observe it, and then it will collapse to whatever we observed. If we could rewind time in the manner you say, then if we keep 'replaying' the same quantum observation infinitely, we would theoretically see each outcome at least once, as the probability of not seeing it would tend to zero. It wouldn't change the outcome of a movie, though, unless you reverted to point far enough back that there wouldbe a microscopically noticeable difference (just a single quantum difference would have (very close to) no impact on the real, classically-defined world.

[@TomTheEnglishPicker]

I’ve been waiting most of my adult life for someone to make a video about the number 7 . I’ve never believed any facts or stories that people say if it’s got a 7 in it . Thank you and I’ve just picked up your audio book

[@TomTheEnglishPicker]

@@jasonbender2459 😆

[@bradyferguson1009]

The most puzzling part of this video was referring to the NSA as “the good guys”

[@Robyamdam]

That mustache got me coming back to this channel

[@WONMARK]

In some video he mentions that when he runs the mustache increases his drag co-effecient.

[@justinthatguy]

That prayer at the end had me in tears, I will now pray this before every game of Apex Legends.

[@joseph-do4ek]

Video games help the mind cloud nine

[@flame3642]

9:05 BRUUUH he's referenced it again

[@Kc12v140]

Asked to pick a number between 1-10... yet according to that chart some people picked 0 😂

[@tranphuongnam1860]

How do Computers Generate Random Numbers? Me: How do I generate random answers for mutiple choice questions

[@TheProGam3rHD]

It is also -almost- impossible to think of what Thoughty2 will title his video next.

[@Eeme0]

Next video: How does Thoughty2 make his videos... would love to know the process

[@cameronhannon4980]

Talk about we cant be random. I was thinking this exact thing watching this video. How does he come up with his video ideas etc

[@jlkraus2]

@@cameronhannon4980 based upon this video I'd have to guess that he reuploads his old videos with a new name

[@tomclany8423]

yeah

[@MowiWowi]

Google

[@epsteinsmurderer5130]

P

[@wilbur9416]

The RNGESUS prayer at the end is priceless! Well done.

[@SuperPwndProductions]

When he referenced Destiny in the prayer to RNGesus, I felt that.

[@bluegizmo1983]

Well ACTUALLY the first random number generator was shortly after the beginning of the universe when quantum mechanics started 🧐🤓 ...... 🤣

[@daveawb]

Started? That's a bold claim :P

[@Je.rone_]

I looked into your older videos, and i much prefer the mustached face

[@MowiWowi]

He should twirl the tips like a steampunk it'll suit him

[@jessicastern8597]

Are those the same two guys? He looks so different. So much younger w/o the mustache. I thought they were different ppl.

[@danielgriffiths845]

@@jessicastern8597 people tend to look older with facial hair and those videos are older and so he was younger then :)

[@DanyF02]

They could certainly achieve true complete randomness if they managed to link it to my ex's moods.

[@AJBants]

I can’t be the only one that bowed their head to pray to RNGesus

[@datguytino]

I feel bad for those that didn’t

[@Cometsarecool]

RNGesus will bless everyone who did.

[@b4ph0m3tdk9]

The son of RNGod

[@sancrosanct5070]

I did too. Pretty gud prayer lol

[@Peter-ss1vb]

@@sancrosanct5070 Dam good prayer, I would go to that church.

[@quackersna]

I use to develop RNGs for casino games. The problem was always with how do you have a randomly selected seed number to kick off the sequence. Everyone in the industry used the same method. There was a radio telescope in Europe that took measurements from background static in space. This static came from the decay of distant stars. The telescope would measure the peaks of the static, apply numbers to them, and sell these numbers in blocks of 100k seed numbers. What we. Immediately noticed was that the numbers had a very minute degree of predictability to them. This was from the most random source in the universe, yet it was not random, just pseudo-random. My team was content to know that the problem was too small and obscure to be a security risk. But my thoughts were centered on the fact that this meant random did not truly exist. The problem is that if random does not exist, neither can other things. It means luck can not exist, neither can coincidence, because these things require random as part of the equation. And that opens up other discoveries, because if coincidence doesn't exist, then that means everything really does happen for a reason, according to a plan. Anyway, your claim that cosmic background radiation is true random is wrong. I suspect the same is true for your other examples as well.

[@InnerEagle]

Then we need to do more research in it!

[@tshegofatsojohnmakgotla1014]

OMG. That prayer. There goes all my Sunday school teachings

[@Marco-yj6gg]

Awesome Video! You swapped PRNG and TRNG at 16:30 😁

[@freakltd6361]

"Hey 42 here" Never Gets Old.

[@jolienberinghs1338]

I hate numbers but thoughty2 always makes me forget who I am because he always makes seemingly boring things interesting ... 🥰

[@mpeezy358]

I mustache you a question. Do you have a twin without a mustache or is it just you? I ask because you almost look like a completely different person without one. Awesome channel tho, one of my favs.

[@jessicastern8597]

I thought the older videos were narrated by someone else. He looks completely different. Older looking I think. I’m still not sure those are the same ppl.

[@austinhernandez2716]

@@jessicastern8597 he acted quite differently as well, and his style of videos was completely different. I've watched him change over the years. I do prefer his old style

[@ZarHakkar]

Isn't randomness just an illusion? All that's really necessary for a number to be random is for the observer to not know how it was generated.

[@carlosluis1970]

yes!

[@gavinb9105]

So I dunno, I feel as though there's something to be said about the possibility we live in a completely deterministic universe. Is it so insane that with enough careful research and application of sound logic we could, in time, understand these seemingly unpredictable natural events on a fundamental level we can't imagine today? The ancient Greeks imagined the atom, but none could guess at the existence of quarks, I wonder what else about our universe lies, awaiting outside of reach today yet within the grasp of tomorrow.

[@SadoMessiahLP]

I also think thats most likely. Even leaves falling from trees do not fall randomly. There will be a pattern if you look hard enough. So why should the radioactive decay of atoms be random? Because we didnt find the pattern yet? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But even if there is no true randomness in this universe, the pattern just needs to be unrecognizable enough.

[@PvblivsAelivs]

You did get me to think of algorithms rather than things like dice. So, naturally, I thought of von Neumann's middle-square method.

[@MrPryzeLurker]

rngesus, who art in procedurally generated heaven, hallowed by the ability to screw me over, thy random number come, thy unpredictable will be done, in hearthstone, as it is in destiny, give us this day our daily loot boxes. and forgive our rage quits, as we forgive those who rage quit against us, for thine is the maddening variability, the arbitrary bullshit, and the nonsense, forever and ever, amen

[@SapioiT]

@@leastpark3492 Ramen!

[@debarjandatta2170]

Ramen

[@adielwilson8749]

🍜 Ramen

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

I enjoyed this. It took me back to memories of school where we had a lecture on the subject. The summation of that lecture was that there were no random numbers meaning; that the predictability of the aforementioned numbers was an impossibly arduous task, but painstakingly possible if you wanted to spend a millennia monitoring an event for said randomness. This video was good.

[@ravencrovax]

Forsake RNGesus! Bow down before the might of Lootcifer.

[@philxray666]

This brings back memories. The amount of times I had to use the RND function in BASIC on the old Commodore 64 seemed endless. Pretty sure it was generated from the clock in the C64. This was for a game called "Punter v Bookie" that was simple by today's standards but worked perfectly for what I wanted.

[@RodrigoTechador]

I reasonably positive that the RND function did not operate off the clock. Unless it was fed another seed, it used the same seed every time it was called. You could see this by putting the RND function inside the loop of your choice and viewing the output it returned-which happened to be the exact same sequence every single time. That's why it was so common to use the RANDOMIZE TIMER command to feed RND the current time (in seconds since midnight) as a new seed each time the function was called. The output still wasn't truly random, but neither was it predictable by the average human.

[@bobjones5166]

Back in the early 1980's when I first started my programming career we used the old grab a digit from the clock trick for random numbers. The clock on the Honeywell mainframe I worked on had seconds out to 5 decimal places. So we would just grab the last digit (changes 100,000 times a second) however many times we needed for the number of digits we needed. Since this number is always counting up it was never close to random but with how fast it changed it was good enough. Well for back then. We then wrote a algorithm to change the timing of the selection of the digits to make it a bit more random. And then the hunt was on. Trying EVERYTHING we could think of to make numbers more random and to this day it cannot be done in any way that is really useable. We are getting closer. Just my $0.02

[@GeekInJeep]

@@jbird4478 I haven't needed to generate a seed in ages, but these days, I think a good option would be to use a remote computer's clock instead. The latency of the request to the remote machine would add a bit of pseudo-randomness.

[@macaronivirus5913]

It would be useful to take also the last fraction of numbers from temperature sensor

[@jessewilson8676]

6:52 I don’t really know why but something about that book cover I really like

[@cyber0x250]

Your videos and content quality is getting better and better , keep it up and thanks for your hard work :) .

[@UltimatePowa]

10:55 That picture is amazingly haha Most people probably dont know this but 8 is often considered the number that represents God, so that picture is well thought out

[@Soooooooooooonicable]

It's hard to really say if anything is truly random. Just because we don't have the tools to predict astronomically complicated processes, doesn't mean they aren't actually predetermined. They're just beyond our limited grasp.

[@altrag]

Not really. Atmospheric noise _might_ fall into this category. Its classified as a chaos theory in the sense that if you knew the exact position, momentum, etc of all the particles in the entire atmosphere and every leaf and butterfly they touch and so on, you could potentially simulate the entire system timestep by timestep, but you could never say "give me the state of the world on Friday" without going through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Its mathematically impossible to predict in the sense of "tell me what it will be like at time point X" without going through the effort of simulating the whole process. But things like radioactive decay and the CMB and such are based on quantum mechanics, and as far as we can tell its absolutely 100% fundamentally random. Not just mathematically random as with chaos theories, but fundamentally random on a physical level. Even if we could track every particle in the universe from the moment of the big bang with complete accuracy, we would still not be able to predict or even simulate the numbers generated by radioactive decay measurements (which in turn of course means we can't track every particle with complete accuracy, as radioactive decay and other quantum effects have driven much of the universe' development).

[@luisbaez8730]

Have no one thought that atmospheric noise and cosmic background radiation are a scripting that is truly Ramon one one thing that can be how aliens use their communication

[@peterw1534]

You said random so many times that it started to lose its meaning

[@massive-boi6910]

I learned more from this British man than my Teachers taught me.

[@williamgeorgefraser]

When I try picking random numbers to fill in my lottery tickets I always seem to end up with the same group of numbers and have to pick other ones, so not random at all. Humans don't do random well.

[@ximalas]

I wrote a Python script years ago to do mine.

[@daniel_960_]

Doesn’t really matter though because the lottery itself is truly random

[@joseph-do4ek]

Think simple be aware third

[@davutsauze8319]

Little correction: 10 is less likely to occur than 7 in a random set, since you need both to get a one somewhere and to then get a zero right after it.

[@badger8999]

I have enjoyed thing channel for years now, love the subjects and delivery of those subjects. Classy yet satirical. there is no such thing as a rng, math as a whole (covering all disciplines) is able to predict and or calculate any thing. It is done daily with computers that do huge simulations. Random itself is perception, we perceive it as random due to not knowing its relation to the world in which that number is present ie 9 planets in our solar system, or the 9 rupees that dropped from the killed mob in zelda. But just like the prediction of the weather (which is the closest to "random" we got today) it can be predicted with accuracy. This leads to research of things like a single rule for all existence ie string theory and or my fav simulation theory. This is also the reason chaos theory is not possible, but random would not be good anyways.

[@ironl4nd]

Wrong. Quantum mechanical effects, like radioactive decay that was mentioned in the video, seem to be truly random, for example.

[@kght222]

whoever did that keyboard smashing stock footage is awesome, he was even spitting out keys from the keyboard after hitting his head with it, i love it.

[@joseph-do4ek]

Smartest one here

[@korydoe4813]

Merry Christmas to you Aaron! Love your content and wit!

[@FharishAhmed]

WAIT A MINUTE HERE!!! ARE the titles itself being changed RANDOMLY over here???

[@joseph-do4ek]

Indifferent realities

[@paulcook7426]

A long time ago, when I used to programme in BASIC on a BBC computer, I soon learned that the random generator always, always, came up with the same sequence. I now suspect similar to what you describe here as the seed generator. Except there was no seed obviously, or maybe only one.

[@jmvh59]

I made a text based game in BASIC for a high school programming assignment and found out that it played exactly the same every single time. I had to insert a loop that ran the random function in the background during user inputs to help randomize outcomes.

[@paulcook7426]

@@jmvh59 OMG. I can't believe I've found someone who did the same as me!!! Just a different method.

[@geekygalaxy4307]

I've never thought of this but now I need to know

[@michaelbrantley6039]

"Forgive us our rage quits as we forgive those who rage quit against us" ....lol that was epic

[@note5068]

Did anyone watch "The day I became a god"? The reason why Hina can predict anything is because her head has a super quantom computer inside her thats why she's able to predict anything and can hack everything

[@LordofSyn]

Yet, QC and Classical Computing have very little in common. Sounds great for plot reasons. Falls apart in practicality.

[@JathraDH]

They do make pretty good true RNGs that come as addon cards that can fit in any computer and generate high levels of output. It works by having a light source that emits single photons of light fired against a 50% reflective mirror at an angle. If the light passes through it hits a detector and generates a 1 bit and if it bounces off it generates a 0 bit. Thus it generates a pretty good true random stream of 1's and 0s because the measurement is being taken post bounce and thus particle probability waves take over for the RNG. They can output at very high bitrates that can be converted into any form of data you want.

[@ssjduelistDD]

Valuable evidence that rng isn't random it's just that video games want to spite you so you don't get the loot drop you want.

[@InnerEagle]

Video games aren't supposed to be perfectly random, else speedrunners would have troubles

[@JimmyCee-cx1db]

Numbers foster accuracy !! Like drawing a perfectly Str8 line, not getting lost in the woods, and speaking sensibly !! Random, true randomness may require transcendence of the routine and mundane and no developing of a desire to return !!

[@rayofblacklight9910]

I'm so fucking early... There's no comments to laugh at

[@ethimself5064]

I'm back

[@tvthecat]

shut up

[@MowiWowi]

Im here where'd everybody go

[@jessicastern8597]

😂

[@vincevvn]

You could always just look in a mirror.

[@shadowpresident4203]

I once was assigned to randomly select the winners of a contest raffle. We had to choose four winners from just under 10,000 valid entries. I listed them serially and used a bit of SAS code and a pseudorandom generator to choose four rows. As a fun bit of 'theater' and building goodwill with the client, I printed out a hard copy random number table, of the kind you'd find in the back of a statistics textbook, etc. The next time I met the client, I asked her to close her eyes and drop a marker onto the random number table. That gave us our starting point. Using a predefined pattern I then moved around the page using that initial point until I had enough numbers to seed the pseudorandom generator. In a way, the boss was the one to set the process in motion.

[@esakkiraj128]

Fun fact: Goblins run faster than Unicorns

[@ryugokaneki2330]

they even break sound barrier if Goblin Slayer chased them on his unicorn

[@dijkstra4678]

That last speech was beautiful

[@myscreen2urs]

7 is the only 2 syllable digit with value. That's why there's so much bias towards it. They should have called it sven.

[@perrydowd9285]

Zero is a two syllable digit. It has a value of zero.

[@myscreen2urs]

@@perrydowd9285 it has no value

[@perrydowd9285]

@@myscreen2urs Yes it does. I can be dogmatic too bro.🤣🤣🤣🤣 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#:~:text=0%20(zero)%20is%20a%20number,placeholder%20in%20place%20value%20systems.

[@rhiannablumberg4803]

man I LOVED this one so much Arran!!! I love learning so much from you. thank you!!!

[@YourAverageHikikomori]

W's banner and Ganyu's Banner is comming soon. May RNGesus bless us all.

[@renkiryu4332]

I pray to RNGesus, please gimme Weedy

[@YourAverageHikikomori]

@@renkiryu4332 W for waifu

[@cryptotooth]

3:49 4T2. Little easter eggs like that make me love this chanel

[@Wheatyz0]

15 views 57 likes 41 comments youtube: nothing is wrong

[@williamgeorgefraser]

Random numbers.

[@Wheatyz0]

@@williamgeorgefraser yes

[@Kevin-rl1cv]

I love your videos man. The RNGJesus prayer at the end really "chef kiss"

[@potatoesare_jesus2278]

Me: Watching videos about dream cheating with his RNG KZbin: Here’s a video

[@mynamejake]

Just finished your book on audible. Loved it!

[@the_hanged_clown]

5:37 "it just works" -thoughty2 now where have I heard that before.....

[@joseph-do4ek]

Videos we watch your whole life

[@peterking2651]

I had to write a Random Number Generator, and it wasn’t really random (for the reasons you mention). So I used the time, not the time of day. I used the time since computer epoch (the time since computing started), as this is constantly changing, and can never repeat, it makes a great seed for a RNG. Now let’s image that by some miracle a 1000 people all press start at the same (within millisecond) and I’m using microseconds as my seed I’m going to generate a truly random number. For my purpose I needed a truly random number between 1 & 100. So of course I’m going to get duplicates (many duplicates). For my purpose duplicates didn’t matter, as long as the number of duplicates changed every time the program ran. This algorithm was used to assign work to a number (100+) servers. The company claimed that their servers had never had a load it could take. I had a couple of mainframes, ready to go, and I pulled the trigger. The Mainframes of our test environment didn’t even reach 2% before we had killed their entire pre-production server farm. As a result of the test I had to add code to detect when a server failed and when it came back. As a result, the contract was amended, and we promised not to exceed agreed thresholds. The moral is that you can generate truly random numbers, and use them to devastating effect (we killed all their servers, other companies couldn’t get rates high enough to kill a single server).

[@paveldzhelyov4668]

Hey Thoughty2, at 16:30, you've changed the name to the picture shown. TRNG would be the scientific machine (when the monitor appears) and PRNG has to be the monitor, but the machine appears. Yes, I don't have many friends.

[@Bahmund]

For further info on this you can watch a vid on how Cloudfare generates their seeds. They use a wall of lava lamps, the camera takes a photo of it and uses the pixel data of the photo to gerenate the seed. A quite interesting implementation

[@coltennial9513]

Remember when it was a thing to say "Lol this is so random XD" on facebook?... Glad those cringe days are over, but they were simple times.

[@coryrichardson7272]

Great video on an interesting topic. You can see a good example of how bad some of these programs that use random number generators are using your phone. I've noticed that most music players when you use 'shuffle' on a list of songs will throw those songs out in a rather random order but if you start the process over shuffle seems to repeat those songs in that same random order again.

[@medexamtoolscom]

They used "LOL" for the 3 digit code in the enigma machine with unreasonably high frequency? I didn't know LOL stood for anything in the 1940s.

[@RadioJonophone]

They used to sign off with, "Heil Hitler" every time so making decoding a bit simpler, well, checking whether your de-crypt algorithm was valid.

[@Steve_1401]

@@RadioJonophone I remember reading that they needed two 3 letter combo's to set the machine. Many operators used place names - Ber/lin, Cob/urg, Bre/men, Lub/eck, Mun/ich etc

[@davidebusato2476]

Love your sense of humour

[@mheermance]

Hurry, he used the word entropy in a discussion of random number generators.

[@Ilikestarwars1245]

That is the most powerful prayer I've hear on Christmas!!!

[@joseph-do4ek]

Remember Christianity and Buddhism is the same thing and Allah

[@famicomnintendo]

Thousands of random people are watching this video at same time. And Thoughty 2 is generating numbers...

[@kght222]

thats actually an interesting point, google could generate random numbers with a pseudo number generator selecting videos on youtube then just looking at concurrent viewers and counting the numeric value of the characters in their user names. it would exclude some values for sure, but i think you could actually call it truly random. implementation would be more complex than my description, but i think it gets the idea across.

[@hippyjoe007]

Very nice. Both informative and entertaining. I found the fact that the collage students, when asked for a number, gave the number that is highly regarded by followers of numeralogy. Telling us that the students were judao-christian.

[@karna5998]

9:07 this seems like a joke on the joke that thought2 sounds like forty-two

[@davidneil5124]

And he used 4T2 as one of the Enigma seeds (lower right corner)

[@ThereIsNoOtherHandleLikeMine]

thought2 actually sounds like 32.

[@phrog4312]

The Segway to explain the separate meaning for nonces was definitely needed XD

[@gomezrodriguez9059]

"KZbin vortex" .. nice one. Its like Factorio - time jump. :-D

[@joseph-do4ek]

Extra

[@joseph-do4ek]

Con 7777

[@itsyoubutme3202]

I am enlightened after hearing thoughty2 prayer 18:50

[@mrharembro1929]

"There's no accident." -Master Oogway v.68

[@Jhonnyoliv]

The challenge is to build a random number generator which follows an uniform distribution. For that, we need to use hardware and software combined to produce useful rng

[@NajaAn]

I was half right with my guess I thought it was gonna be 1927 but damn, keep up the amazing videos they are the perfect balance to rather watch solely or to have on in the background when drawing etc! 💕

[@LevitatingCups]

Those stock footage "gaming" moments are just solid gold.

[@joseph-do4ek]

Don't you get it where the GTA 6 characters