alt Hacker NewsRandom number generators are deterministic. If you give it the same seed, you get the same result. But that does not mean that a human can predict, for a new seed, what the result will be.
Random number generators are deterministic. If you give it the same seed, you get the same result. But that does not mean that a human can predict, for a new seed, what the result will be.
psuedo-random number generators are deterministic.
a human can predict that the number that is generated will be suitably random.
a human can predict the result from a pseudo-random generator with enough knowledge of seed/program state/etc.
now I can't say this holds for a TRUE random number generator. nor do I know where we were going with this.