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Either of those work well 200 years ago? I didn't think so.

The thing with feeding truly random numbers to a person is that they never seem "random enough," so you'll have people rejecting a stochastic process because they see patterns, so they'll go out of their way to make it look more like noise, and decreasing the entropy.

"Here be chaotic bits"

I love the idea of this. Commodity hardware + smarts = awesome

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