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myrmepropagandist · 11w
Had a lot of fun with my stats students today. I gave them two data sets. One from a random number generator, the other was one I made up that was not random, but designed to look random. They were ab...
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There is something very creepy about the way LLMs willy cheerfully give lists of "random" numbers. But they aren't random in frequency, and as my students pointed out "it's probably from some webpage about how to generate random numbers"

But even then, why is the frequency so unnaturally regular? It's that an artifact from mixing lists of real random numbers together?
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Houston Do'ug · 11w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj and how about those "random" passwords generated by AI 😬 https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116099905667994600 * over and over, again. #PasswordReuse #VibeSlop