4: Randomness, What Happens Without Sleep, and Stardew Valley
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The Infinite Monkey Theorem
It sounds like, it sounds like a drum basically. That is actually how, um, Chiptune drums used to work on, on old video game consoles. They would literally randomize the pitch. And that was a way to simulate a drum sound when you had not a lot of memory to do so. So randomness is surprisingly useful to us. But while creating randomness from dice or from computers is relatively easy, choosing to be random is actually really deceptively difficult. I think this is an interesting example of that.
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