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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Pseudorandom Memes

Posts tagged with Pseudorandom

Can Quantum Mechanics Save Us?

Physics Math Science Tech
7 hours ago 2.4K views 0 shares
Can Quantum Mechanics Save Us?
So you crack open a random number generator expecting, you know, randomness, and find out it's deterministic. Cool cool cool. Nothing says "existential crisis" quite like discovering your supposedly unpredictable algorithm is just following rules like everything else in classical physics. Here's the thing: most "random" number generators are pseudorandom—they use deterministic algorithms (like linear congruential generators) that produce sequences appearing random but are entirely predictable if you know the seed. True randomness requires quantum processes or physical phenomena, not your computer's math library churning through the same formula since 1997. That cat's face perfectly captures the moment you realize your Monte Carlo simulation has been lying to you this whole time. Deterministic chaos masquerading as randomness. Philosophy majors would have a field day with this one.

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Ollama vs llama.cpp vs MLX on a Mac Studio, measured

Qwen3.5 9B through Ollama (GGUF and MLX), llama-bench, mlx-lm and rapid-mlx on an M3 Ultra. Measured tokens per second, memory, and what MTP changes. Read article →

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