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It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

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The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | John von Neumann |

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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