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by anw 4189 days ago
Before clicking the link, the title reminded me of an article I had read a few years ago. The article mentioned how true randomness can be prone to heavily favoring one outcome for a long stretch; while "faked" randomness will usually try to just look random, rather than being so.

Lo and behold, this is the same article I was thinking of. It seems some of the pictures are not loading now—no surprise, as it was published in 2012.

For a view of this article with working pictures, check out the archived version of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20140803073404/http://www.wired....