Talk:Randomness
From Maze
- Another is the board used by compositors to keep type as pages are made up. what exactly is this? like something a comic book artist or newspaper layout person might use? Check http://libraries.mit.edu/get/oed -NM
- laying waste. does that mean shooting a country with missiles from the air or pooping? srsly! http://www.thefreedictionary.com/laying+waste -NM
- found an interesting early "pop" book on game theory that includes a random number table at the end: The Compleat Strategyst http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB113-1.html
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Note for citation, use format (Montfort 2009, p. 24)
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Notes from Skype 2 February 2011: - Historical factors and context from which "random" emerged. Certain things in time. - The meanings of what "random" means in computing vs common use in language. What does the concept of randomness mean to different people? People in computing vs. the general public.
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Note from Noah: I have edited the first half of the randomness_in_the_arts, combined it with a few paragraphs about random music and pasted them here.
Note from Casey: I haven't put my notes into prose yet, but I have basic material here and more forthcoming here Randomness_in_the_Arts
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After spending some hours on researching Truchet, I don't think his work fits in Random. The work he did on tiling is extraordinary and entirely relevant to 10 Print, but I can't find a single instance where Truchet himself used random values. If we move forward with a section about "grids" then I think he should go there. The article "The Tiling Patterns of Sebastien Truchet and the Topology of Structural Hierarchy" published in Leonardo has a translation of Truchet's original document.
Note from Mark: I agree with the Truchet. We were initially going to use him in the maze chapter, but it didn't fit there either. The Grids or Regularity chapter might be a good place. I've been reading up on him as well; it'll be interesting to see how our readings overlap. --MarkSample 23:56, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
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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),
