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Randomness is a central concept to statistics and physics. Here, a statistical analysis shows experimental evidence that tossing coins and finding last digits of prime numbers are identical regarding statistics for equally likely outcomes.…

Applications · Statistics 2019-10-29 Yeseul Kim , Byung Mook Weon

The recognition of the agency of the knower has enormously enriched our understanding of knowledge production. There is a growing realization that what we know about how we know affects our interpretation of reality. This realization…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2011-04-22 Gennady Shkliarevsky

Almost surely, the difference between the randomness deficiencies of two infinite sequences will be unbounded with respect to repeated iterations of the shift operator.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Samuel Epstein

In contrast with software-generated randomness (called pseudo-randomness), quantum randomness is provable incomputable, i.e.\ it is not exactly reproducible by any algorithm. We provide experimental evidence of incomputability --- an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-09 Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Monica Dumitrescu , Karl Svozil

An infinite binary sequence is deemed to be random if it has all definable properties that hold almost surely for the usual probability measure on the set of infinite binary sequences. There are only countably many such properties, so it…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-03-18 Peter G. Doyle

This article studies the dynamics of a finite chain with infinite components. The equation which permits us to find the probability distribution of the chain length is constructed and analysed. This research is a continuation of paper…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-19 Elena V. Karachanskaya

We apply a common measure of randomness, the entropy, in the context of iterated functions on a finite set with n elements. For a permutation, it turns out that this entropy is asymptotically (for a growing number of iterations) close to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Joachim von zur Gathen

Randomness is viewed through an analogy between a physical quantity, density of gas, and a mathematical construct -- probability density. Boltzmann's deduction of equilibrium distribution of ideal gas placed in an external potential field…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-27 M. Grendar, , M. Grendar

Our aim is to experimentally study the possibility of distinguishing between quantum sources of randomness--recently proved to be theoretically incomputable--and some well-known computable sources of pseudo-randomness. Incomputability is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Monica Dumitrescu , Karl Svozil

There are many randomness notions. On the classical account, many of them are about whether a given infinite binary sequence is random for some given probability. If so, this probability turns out to be the same for all these notions, so…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Floris Persiau , Jasper De Bock , Gert de Cooman

The concept of randomness plays an important role in many disciplines. On one hand, the question of whether random processes exist is fundamental for our understanding of nature. On the other hand, randomness is a resource for cryptography,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Antonio Acín , Lluis Masanes

The human brain is the substrate for human intelligence. By simulating the human brain, artificial intelligence builds computational models that have learning capabilities and perform intelligent tasks approaching the human level. Deep…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-20 Barco Jie You

The dynamic instability of the living systems and the "superposition" of different forms of randomness are viewed as a component of the contingently increasing organization of life along evolution. We briefly survey how classical and…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2011-04-07 Marcello Buiatti , Giuseppe Longo

We survey the Kolmogorov's approach to the notion of randomness through the Kolmogorov complexity theory. The original motivation of Kolmogorov was to give up a quantitative definition of information. In this theory, an object is randomness…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Marie Ferbus-Zanda , Serge Grigorieff

It has been argued that introducing AI to creative practices destroys spontaneity, intuition and serendipity. However, the design of systems that leverage complex interactions between citizen scientists (members of the public engaged in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Marisa Ponti , Anastasia Skarpeti , Bruno Kestemont

The peculiar uncertainty or randomness of quantum measurements stems from coherence, whose information-theoretic characterization is currently under investigation. Under the resource theory of coherence, it is interesting to investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Xiao Yuan , Qi Zhao , Davide Girolami , Xiongfeng Ma

We use the martingale-theoretic approach of game-theoretic probability to incorporate imprecision into the study of randomness. In particular, we define several notions of randomness associated with interval, rather than precise,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Gert de Cooman , Jasper De Bock

Do completely unpredictable events exist in nature? Classical theory, being fully deterministic, completely excludes fundamental randomness. On the contrary, quantum theory allows for randomness within its axiomatic structure. Yet, the fact…

Random matrix theory has played a major role in several areas of pure and applied mathematics, as well as statistics, physics, and computer science. This lecture aims to describe the intrinsic freeness phenomenon and how it provides new…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Afonso S. Bandeira

We define a notion of randomness for individual and collections of formal languages based on automatic martingales acting on sequences of words from some underlying domain. An automatic martingale bets if the incoming word belongs to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Birzhan Moldagaliyev