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4: Randomness, What Happens Without Sleep, and Stardew Valley

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How Did We Get From Sheep Bones to Nuclear Physics?

Tom: Randomness in theory represents a thing that is fundamentally unknowable, right? You can't predict it. But what I think is beautiful is that we've turned this unknowability into a tool for science and research and technology. And now I listen to three different Dungeons and Dragons podcasts where people throw glorified sheep bones on a table. My brother spent 65 pounds on glorified sheep bone yesterday. So nothing surprises me anymore in the D&D world.

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