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scrottie@bsd.network

<p>COBOL programmer.<br />Swears a lot, at tech.<br />Please don&#39;t feel like you should follow me just because I followed you! You&#39;re probably way cooler than I am.<br />Sometimes I get chatty (procrastinating). Mute me for a while and I swear I will get the hint and go away. Or just tell me to go back to work.<br />Please don&#39;t hesitate to DM me if I did something boneheaded or you just need to chat. &lt;3</p>

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  • Post #2240397

    Remembering an old CompSci concept*... generators vs sieves. For example, we don&amp;#39;t have good prime number generators... but we have a fairly good sieve that filters numbers quickly for likely being a prime. otoh we do have fairly good pseudo-random number generators (digital computers are designed to not have noise so it takes a little bit of work to introduce noise). Me thinks some things that are really fundamentally sieves are currently being passed off as generators. (* And that&amp;...