Daniel Lakeland on Nostr: The very first basic logical assumption is invalidated... But even if we grant that's ...
The very first basic logical assumption is invalidated... But even if we grant that's true and that you go around studying random number generators, a class of things so notoriously hard to build that they are repeatedly the cause of major security flaws in cryptographic software between 1990-2010, the existence of a small p value in a test says NOTHING about the explanation for WHY the test fails, it particularly says nothing about whether your favorite explanation is true.
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