🎲 Pseudorandom number generator
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Randomness is much harder to achieve than you’d think.
So hard that computers need to store a watered-down version of randomness called “entropy” in their brains in order to simulate it.
More entropy = more randomness.
🎮 Video games use randomness, most notably via procedural generation.
This is the random generation of maps, levels, characters, etc. — and is a subset of what’s known as “synthetic media”.
🤖 If you’ve seen a deepfake, you’ve seen synthetic media.
It's existed since ancient Greek civilization, where people like Hero of Alexandria designed machines capable of writing text, generating sounds, and playing music.
😇 Hero was indeed a hero as well as a scholar — inventing many things, not the least of which being the first vending machine.
How’d it work?
Insert a coin.
A set amount of holy water is dispensed.
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Path:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria