{"id":948,"date":"2004-12-06T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/12\/randomness\/"},"modified":"2004-12-06T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T21:38:55","slug":"randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/randomness\/","title":{"rendered":"Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot more to randomness that you might realise. I actually did a course in it once, but I&#8217;ve mostly forgotten it all. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/articles\/20041204\/bob9.asp\">This is a good primer<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>). Incidentally, it seems that coin tossing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/articles\/20040228\/fob2.asp\">isn&#8217;t fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot more to randomness that you might realise. I actually did a course in it once, but I&#8217;ve mostly forgotten it all. This is a good primer (via Boing Boing). Incidentally, it seems that coin tossing isn&#8217;t fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}