Talk:Randomness
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We don't have a natural place in this document yet for the use of random values in the sciences. I've started to come across names, but haven't done any research yet: Charles Sanders Peirce, Ronald Fisher, (Frank Yates), | We don't have a natural place in this document yet for the use of random values in the sciences. I've started to come across names, but haven't done any research yet: Charles Sanders Peirce, Ronald Fisher, (Frank Yates), | ||
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| + | 10 Print Random Chapter Notes | ||
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| + | * Not satisfied with the opening paragraph | ||
| + | * Don’t quite get the opening lines of the etymology section. “chance is hap”? Though it might be useful to talk about the real root of “chance” -- late Latin cadentia falling | ||
| + | * The origins of “random” are quite different from the computional meaning of randomness, which is more along the lines of “chance” (versus impetuousness). Possibly play up this distinction. | ||
| + | * After the the discussion of Knuth and SAGA II is where the chapter’s authorial tone tapers off, switching to informal 2nd person, notes, etc. | ||
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| + | Larger organizational questions: I wonder if the semi-chronological structure (randomness pre-computing, randomness with computing) obscures some of the salient points we want to make about aesthetic design. | ||
| + | --[[User:MarkSample|MarkSample]] 17:19, 7 May 2011 (UTC) | ||
