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randomness

(1)
An inexplicable misfeature; gratuitous inelegance.

randomness

(2)
A hack or crock that depends on a complex combination of coincidences (or, possibly, the combination upon which the crock depends for its accidental failure to malfunction). "This hack can output characters 40--57 by putting the character in the four bit accumulator field of an XCT and then extracting six bits - the low 2 bits of the XCT opcode are the right thing." "What randomness!"

randomness

(3)
Of people, synonymous with "flakiness". The connotation is that the person so described is behaving weirdly, incompetently, or inappropriately for reasons which are (a) too tiresome to bother inquiring into, (b) are probably as inscrutable as quantum phenomena anyway, and (c) are likely to pass with time. "Maybe he has a real complaint, or maybe it's just randomness. See if he calls back."
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Pick a date and time and ensure randomness happens.
So, if we are going to be sure of keeping our data secure wherever our applications run, we need to create a source of entropy or randomness that will span our entire application environment and stand the test of time, even withstand the arrival quantum computers.
These Fibonacci-based algorithms lack of the randomness measurement.
Helpful here is the clarification of "strong" versus "weak" randomness, with the former involving stochastic (causal) processes constituted by indiscriminate and hence probabilistically equivalent processes of elemental replacements that are invariant over time (so that mutations are no more or less likely to occur at any site of that process), and with the latter involving same processes that are either discriminate (hence probabilistically un-equivalent) or variant over time, or both.
Some recent works which study the relation between Ergodic Theory and randomness are V'yugin [7], Gacs et al.
Eshan Chattopadhyay and David Zuckerman, computer scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, were scheduled to present the new randomness extractor June 20 in Cambridge, Mass., at the Symposium on the Theory of Computing.
In this paper randomness testing is carried out on the key schedule algorithms that evaluate the randomness of the sub keys.
On the other hand, many researchers have attempted to improve algorithmic speed, but this caused a decrease in the randomness. Zoltak [8] proposed Variably Modified Permutation Composition (VMPC) which was designed to be efficient in software implementations and solved a weakness found in the RC4 Key Scheduling Algorithm (KSA) that had been described by Fluhrer et al.[9].The structure of Pseudo-Random Generation Algorithm (PRGA) in VMPC was more complex in comparison with the RC4 which makes it more resistant to attacks.
The randomness of these deaths also is unsettling, reminding us, as it does, of both our personal and our national insecurity.
Fooled by Randomness is a non-technical book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb that describes imperfection of human knowledge.
On the outside, Mike carries himself quietly and humbly, but on the inside his brain is constantly percolating with inspirational randomness, which is shown to the world through his music, art and shredding.
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