What is Nostr?
tom jennings /
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2023-11-26 00:36:12
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tom jennings on Nostr: npub1xq6nz…mlysw Right! It's an odd moment, when you decide to invoke randomness ...

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Right! It's an odd moment, when you decide to invoke randomness (sic)(usually:-) into a creative process. It has a touch of foolishness, a leap, and hope. Very Discordian.

One of my very favorite books is Rand's 1955 A MILLION RANDOM DIGITS... I did my MFA thesis on it, mining uranium, and a 4000 year old spreadsheet, amongst other things.

(I re-created the RAND hardware random number generator involving a "6D4 thyratron in a crossed magnetic field" as a lovely functional sculpture. https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Objects/GTNG/index.html)

RAND's book is the precise opposite of a math table: the process used to read eg. logarithm tables is rigid and invariant, to ensure repeatability; the RAND intructions:

//"...open the book to an unselected page... blindly choose a 5-digit number; this number reduced modulo 2 determines the starting line; the two digits to the right... determine the starting column..."//

The book is gauranteed to contain no information! Again totally discordian.

Here's my book review, lol:

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/MillionRandomDigitsBook/
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