Review of Randomness by Mark S
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This is a very evocative piece, using a spattering of examples to loosely illustrate different meanings of randomness "in the wild." Some of the mini-paragraphs are beautifully written, and they stand in sharp contrast to the more utilitarian, straightforward writing that characterizes the sections on programming and machine code. | This is a very evocative piece, using a spattering of examples to loosely illustrate different meanings of randomness "in the wild." Some of the mini-paragraphs are beautifully written, and they stand in sharp contrast to the more utilitarian, straightforward writing that characterizes the sections on programming and machine code. | ||
| − | As we shape these thoughts into a chapter, though, we'll need to be more systematic, offering a clearer picture of what we're trying to accomplish in this chapter. I can imagine that many of the short, evocative pieces in this section might be combined into an introduction of randomness that would begin the chapter. I wouldn't want to rely solely on more abstract musings about randomness. Pretty quickly, I think, we'll have to move into talking more concretely about randomness. | + | As we shape these thoughts into a chapter, we'll need to be systematic, offering a clearer picture of what we're trying to accomplish in this chapter. I can imagine that many of the short, evocative pieces in this section might be combined into an introduction of randomness that would begin the chapter. I wouldn't want to rely solely on more abstract musings about randomness. Pretty quickly, I think, we'll have to move into talking more concretely about randomness. |
Some of the material at the end (about the MOS6510 or recalibrating the randomness generator to the sound chip) will be perfect--in an expanded form--toward the end of the randomness chapter. | Some of the material at the end (about the MOS6510 or recalibrating the randomness generator to the sound chip) will be perfect--in an expanded form--toward the end of the randomness chapter. | ||
