Why a Book of 1 Million Random Numbers Sells for $68

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  • @halfasinteresting
    @halfasinteresting  Před 3 lety +1309

    If we had a book of infinite random words, somewhere in there would be the perfect, holy grail of HAI topics, but unfortunately we don't. If you have that holy grail topic, though, suggest it to us, and we will reward you with one whole HAI t-shirt if we use it (shipped out once per quarter. Terms and conditions apply or something idk I'm not a lawyer.) Submit your topic here!: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUdlvw6YgU44J8AnM2U_ZvRMyvh_CUM51LYSqF5nYJB9d1-w/viewform?usp=sf_link

    • @AVeryRandomPerson
      @AVeryRandomPerson Před 3 lety +5

      No

    • @fortune3911
      @fortune3911 Před 3 lety +4

      Hey you

    • @dakshbhatt811
      @dakshbhatt811 Před 3 lety +5

      I've submitted 25 suggestions in the past 2 days!!!

    • @anniversarynotice1838
      @anniversarynotice1838 Před 3 lety +5

      Today, October 2nd, is Senior Citizens' Day.
      It is a statutory anniversary established in 1997 with the aim of promoting national measures, along with awakening public interest in the issue of senior citizens. And it is also the birthday of Allingsong (Gk), a Liverpool soccer player

    • @nuclearfox210
      @nuclearfox210 Před 3 lety +14

      but... this book exists

  • @Skeke
    @Skeke Před 3 lety +3521

    The book's price should be random for each buyer

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 Před 3 lety +384

      So, Amazon's pricing system?

    • @madwax4771
      @madwax4771 Před 3 lety +152

      According to my previous random chances in life, I would have to pay atleast 1M dollars for it

    • @gameseeker6307
      @gameseeker6307 Před 3 lety +8

      @@nitehawk86 what?

    • @skilledskeleton3124
      @skilledskeleton3124 Před 3 lety +78

      It should be 69$ they ruined it

    • @sweeflyboy
      @sweeflyboy Před 3 lety +19

      That one guy who gets an impossibly high price...

  • @SignificantNumberOfBeavers
    @SignificantNumberOfBeavers Před 3 lety +4903

    I love half as interesting. Random facts, stock footage, and sarcastic jokes.

  • @Lukusprime
    @Lukusprime Před 3 lety +675

    “Used that information to steal millions from casinos” no, he earned those millions

  • @CompletelyNormal
    @CompletelyNormal Před 3 lety +445

    If you buy a book that says "Rand" on the front, honestly a million random digits is a best-case scenario.

  • @FantFrei
    @FantFrei Před 3 lety +2181

    reminds me of the first class every semester when the professors say something like "and if you wanna prepare for this class i suggest THESE books" then they share links to their own overpriced terrible books because a life as a professor seemingly doesnt pay enough

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 Před 3 lety +68

      Source : Why books are so expensive?
      Price : $1000

    • @tylerr2126
      @tylerr2126 Před 3 lety +5

      Lol

    • @diasturien
      @diasturien Před 3 lety +202

      Well, trust me when I say it really really doesn't pay until you're 20-30 years in and have tenure. Source: finishing my PhD now, and very much broke.

    • @Djuntas
      @Djuntas Před 3 lety +78

      Meanwhile in Denmark we have high school teachers after 10 years at the same school making good salaries, whats up USA :p

    • @DavidUtau
      @DavidUtau Před 3 lety +7

      @@pasdpasse439 congrats you posted cringe

  • @bracco23
    @bracco23 Před 3 lety +1479

    4:30 it's literally "some russian name" in russian lol

  • @valentinoamatsaleh6563
    @valentinoamatsaleh6563 Před 3 lety +508

    Her: What is your occupation?
    Author: Im a writer
    Her: Really?!?!! What kind of books do you write?
    Author :It's complicated

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 Před 3 lety +33

      "It's complicated?" Or, "I dunno. Random stuff."

    • @Tigerskunk
      @Tigerskunk Před 3 lety +10

      @@kari7403 or it's both or neither. Its all just a random answer.

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Tigerskunk a complicated random answer? Maybe?
      😁

    • @davidt8087
      @davidt8087 Před 3 lety +2

      It's so pathetic that you morons fall for this whole "limited time only" scam. Almost ALL youtubers when they say "buy my merch now because it's only for a limited time" is always lying. It's NEVER for a limited time ever ever. You can check YEARS later and something that was supposedly only available for a week is STILL AVAILABLE AFTER 4 YEARS. You people are too dumb to read between the lines, and realize it's a scam and a lie to create a false sense of urgency to get you morons to Immeadiately waste your money and pay up to buy some stupid shirt with a stupid design/logo that if you wear it outside and someone sees it they'll think your a nerd or geek or just so pathetic for buying a youtubers shirt who does nothing but go on Wikipedia and copy and paste the contents in an overly drawn out video with stock footage to make money and you people idolize skmeone like this. How is it the young generation are so dumb they always fall for this scam of "limited time" only? Seriously are you people that dumb you can't open your eyes and sense that he's creating a fake sense of urgency to get you to buy the shitty merch right away?

    • @joeblow5178
      @joeblow5178 Před 3 lety +1

      @@davidt8087 You typed ALL that ? Hehehe hahaha

  • @economicsinaction
    @economicsinaction Před 3 lety +308

    1:07
    Wait what.. this isn't stock footage!

    • @Dmanthepowerful
      @Dmanthepowerful Před 3 lety +23

      Heresy!

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 Před 3 lety +1

      Are you sure it's not?

    • @Ethan5I5
      @Ethan5I5 Před 3 lety

      Sam is the guy that makes stock footage (satire)

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 3 lety +2

      That's gotta be at least three quarters as interesting!

    • @pasatorman8294
      @pasatorman8294 Před 3 lety +3

      @@davidt8087 if you dont like a youtuber just dont watch them because its really annoying when people like you open videos just to say how bad they are

  • @astralityyy
    @astralityyy Před 3 lety +316

    i read the title as “why a book of random numbers sells for $68 million”

    • @xexpaguette
      @xexpaguette Před 3 lety +11

      PLOT TWIST: THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL TITLE BUT HE CHANGED IT

    • @astralityyy
      @astralityyy Před 3 lety +3

      @@xexpaguette omg imagine

    • @BlackGoldSaya
      @BlackGoldSaya Před 3 lety +1

      Same

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 Před 3 lety +7

      I saw it say something like, $68 800k. Only the 8 looked kinda weird. Took me a minute to realize it said *book* and not 800k. Lol

    • @plantshark770
      @plantshark770 Před 3 lety

      Same

  • @pegeonpera
    @pegeonpera Před 3 lety +1874

    "Just as today's reddit memes can predict tomorrow's Instagram memes"
    Sam is a redditor confirmed

    • @anniversarynotice1838
      @anniversarynotice1838 Před 3 lety +13

      Today, October 2nd, is Senior Citizens' Day.
      It is a statutory anniversary established in 1997 with the aim of promoting national measures, along with awakening public interest in the issue of senior citizens. And it is also the birthday of Allingsong (Gk), a Liverpool soccer player

    • @kjellvin1004
      @kjellvin1004 Před 3 lety +39

      I can smell him from over here

    • @forkrunner2208
      @forkrunner2208 Před 3 lety +6

      It’s the other way around.

    • @Cemtexify
      @Cemtexify Před 3 lety +33

      You couldn't tell from his orange man bad jokes in every video?

    • @matthewe919
      @matthewe919 Před 3 lety +49

      @@Cemtexify orange fan sad?

  • @dalethepalemale6855
    @dalethepalemale6855 Před 3 lety +154

    It's actually super interesting how true random numbers are generated using thunderstorms, lava lamps, or even just kinetic energy from the atmosphere.

  • @AdamSmith-ig5bu
    @AdamSmith-ig5bu Před 3 lety +145

    1:07 A small peek in the HAI office.

    • @neelima6460
      @neelima6460 Před 3 lety +1

      "Adam Smith was wrong"
      J Nash

    • @AdamSmith-ig5bu
      @AdamSmith-ig5bu Před 3 lety +2

      @@neelima6460 why am i wrong, i don't get it ?

    • @neelima6460
      @neelima6460 Před 3 lety +4

      @@AdamSmith-ig5bu , It's a quote from movie beautiful mind.😄

  • @569C
    @569C Před 3 lety +512

    My stats teacher had this book and flexed it on the whole class

    • @harshitarao2225
      @harshitarao2225 Před 3 lety +7

      Lol

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 Před 3 lety +15

      How much pages was it? Did you find the number of pages as a random number in the book?

    • @naufalap
      @naufalap Před 3 lety +29

      yeah would be hard to flex if it has too many pages

    • @alyandthecats
      @alyandthecats Před 3 lety +10

      The textbooks only ever had like half a page of random numbers at the back, and that was usually good for a whole year of high school stats lol

    • @davidt8087
      @davidt8087 Před 3 lety

      It's so pathetic that you morons fall for this whole "limited time only" scam. Almost ALL youtubers when they say "buy my merch now because it's only for a limited time" is always lying. It's NEVER for a limited time ever ever. You can check YEARS later and something that was supposedly only available for a week is STILL AVAILABLE AFTER 4 YEARS. You people are too dumb to read between the lines, and realize it's a scam and a lie to create a false sense of urgency to get you morons to Immeadiately waste your money and pay up to buy some stupid shirt with a stupid design/logo that if you wear it outside and someone sees it they'll think your a nerd or geek or just so pathetic for buying a youtubers shirt who does nothing but go on Wikipedia and copy and paste the contents in an overly drawn out video with stock footage to make money and you people idolize skmeone like this. How is it the young generation are so dumb they always fall for this scam of "limited time" only? Seriously are you people that dumb you can't open your eyes and sense that he's creating a fake sense of urgency to get you to buy the shitty merch right away

  • @PrimeMinus
    @PrimeMinus Před 3 lety +149

    The guy over at Wendover Products is so weird.

  • @Hano..
    @Hano.. Před 3 lety +125

    When are they gonna make the sequel: 2 million random numbers

    • @equaius893
      @equaius893 Před 3 lety +3

      Cant wait! I've read the first one over and over and am waiting so see where it goes next!

    • @tonyman1106
      @tonyman1106 Před 3 lety +5

      I know right that 2248373672 was the best part

    • @zarinjanis
      @zarinjanis Před 3 lety +8

      I read like first 400 pages but then 25339 came and it ruined the whole story.

    • @FrozenBusChannel
      @FrozenBusChannel Před 3 lety +1

      Why not make it into a series: *A Random Number of Random Numbers*

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Před 3 lety

      Okay but they should have different numbers in each edition of it.

  • @GriffinStorm
    @GriffinStorm Před 3 lety +69

    I got a copy of this from my university's free book event about 6 years ago when they were downsizing their catalog at the library. I sold it on Amazon for somewhere between $50 and $80.

  • @neeneko
    @neeneko Před 3 lety +60

    heh.
    Years ago I worked on a gambling machine, and determinism was actually a big part of getting past regulators. I literally had to create a table of random seeds to their eventual outcome, and then embed the whitelist in the machine so that we could guarantee that any random play's results would fall within a certain range. We even had the ability to switch between tables so operators could control what payouts would look like.

    • @phxcppdvlazi
      @phxcppdvlazi Před 2 lety +2

      I read that gambling is actually strictly regulated in Nevada since it is kind of the lifeblood there. Did the machines you worked on use a microsecond stopwatch to pick a seed?

    • @neeneko
      @neeneko Před 2 lety

      @@phxcppdvlazi Yeah, Nevada and New Jersey were both nightmares to develop for, with Utah being a close second. Though in this case the project I was on was for a UK machine.
      As for our seed, I think we just used system clock based entropy and some install time salt.

    • @NaudVanDalen
      @NaudVanDalen Před 2 lety

      Can't you use a random number generator card you can plug into a computer? I assume all slot machines are connected to a server to track all revenue and outcomes.

  • @AlessandroRodriguez
    @AlessandroRodriguez Před 3 lety +266

    HAI: framing your friends for tax evasion _as a prank_
    Me: Oh, sure, sure _as a prank_ .....

  • @maximusprimus2313
    @maximusprimus2313 Před 3 lety +17

    Ive actually read this book. I got a copy very old copy from my library. I was studying computer games and went down a rabbit hole about random numbers. In one of the texts mentioned this holy grail of a book had my library do a search and they found another library willing to lone it to me. I graphed, explored mapped compared sections to the stock market migrating geese and really enjoyed the book. I learned there is no true random except what time i got up. Lol

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc Před 3 lety +67

    4:30, takes the time to translate: “Some kind of Russian name” instead of figuring out how to pronounce the actual name... and that’s why we love HAI. 👏 👏

  • @danijelandroid
    @danijelandroid Před 3 lety +25

    4:30 Let's be honest. Stealing from a casino is like stealing your money back from a thief. Casinos have 'stacked the deck/the house always wins'. It is never a fair 'contest'.

  • @casey6556
    @casey6556 Před 3 lety +22

    Tom Scott literally did a video about a company that uses lava lamps as random number generators LMAO

  • @deadmg3746
    @deadmg3746 Před 3 lety +15

    Processors actually generate *true* random numbers from random quantum fluctuations. Their supply of these is limited but more than enough for a slot machine or a cryptography key every now and then.

  • @dailysacrificedoublee
    @dailysacrificedoublee Před 3 lety +71

    4:48
    I, for one, have very predictable emotions. These will be my emotions for the next week:
    This concludes my list. Specify which teenagers in particular next time.

    • @bryanfolkert2854
      @bryanfolkert2854 Před 3 lety +2

      This is one of the most relatable jokes I’ve seen

    • @akhilalot
      @akhilalot Před 3 lety

      I think this is true even for non teenagers in 2020

    • @JrottenOlm
      @JrottenOlm Před 3 lety

      What a teenagery thing to say.

  • @yesitsmojo24
    @yesitsmojo24 Před 3 lety +136

    Random number generator website: "Hold my beer"

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 Před 3 lety +10

      I have held your beer and drank it. Oddly enough it tastes like a drink full of binary code.

    • @mghq-mobilegamerzhq2533
      @mghq-mobilegamerzhq2533 Před 3 lety +2

      Rand function, Figt me

    • @ETXAlienRobot201
      @ETXAlienRobot201 Před 3 lety +6

      i'm really surprised he didn't mention random.org, actually

    • @seansola6708
      @seansola6708 Před 3 lety +1

      Gordon: *"Where's the Lamb Sauce."*

  • @pulkitmohta8964
    @pulkitmohta8964 Před 3 lety +8

    That green coloured tick that was made at 5:18 was just so satisfying

    • @tw7321
      @tw7321 Před 2 lety

      Not really, it didn’t go right through the corner 😭

  • @ScottCalvinsClause
    @ScottCalvinsClause Před rokem +4

    I knew a guy whose life long hobby was trying to find patterns in that book. He was one of those corn farmer, genius types. He had a small, isolated corn farm in the grain belt and I would occasionally visit him to buy/sell "herbs". He played classical violin and would often have jeopardy playing in the background. He would correctly answer the trivia, mid-sentence without missing a beat. He told me that he was was pretty sure he would never find the equation to debunk the randomness but kept trying for " fun and entertainment ". His copy of the book was so worn, I had to believe him.

    • @bruce4139
      @bruce4139 Před 8 měsíci +1

      This is the type of guy that I would love to nerd out with and just listen to everything he can teach me

  • @Andersl201
    @Andersl201 Před 3 lety +105

    If this book has even a single copy of itself, the numbers are no longer random. They would become the numbers of that book.

    • @kaboomwinn4026
      @kaboomwinn4026 Před 3 lety +8

      The number in book is different when the book is printed and not a copy of it self. The page can be at random order.

    • @rogehmarbi
      @rogehmarbi Před 3 lety +5

      my head hurts bad now

    • @jeroenstrompf5064
      @jeroenstrompf5064 Před 3 lety

      What a wonderful idea!

    • @Plumbump
      @Plumbump Před 2 lety +5

      It ceased to be random the moment someone finished proofreading it.

    • @jamescollier3
      @jamescollier3 Před 2 lety +1

      yes. thank you. lol right!!!

  • @AVeryRandomPerson
    @AVeryRandomPerson Před 3 lety +68

    Now I'm going to start all my random number sequences with 5, and exclude 1.

    • @samh151
      @samh151 Před 3 lety +2

      you madman

    • @aqdv25
      @aqdv25 Před 3 lety +5

      then its no longer really random because you have set constraints? it will now be easier to guess the numbers that you will pick, statistically speaking.

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 Před 3 lety

      Then it is not random. Humans are truly bad at picking random numbers.

    • @disorganizedorg
      @disorganizedorg Před 3 lety

      The lack of initial "1s" is related to Benford's Law, I'd guess.

    • @insightfultoaster2965
      @insightfultoaster2965 Před 3 lety +4

      @@aqdv25 Its a joke

  • @MoritzvonSchweinitz
    @MoritzvonSchweinitz Před 3 lety +26

    The amazon reviews for the "1 million random numbers" book are hilarious!
    Another important aspect of this book if that it is a source of "no aces up my sleeve" random numbers: if I were to publish some research that requires random numbers, I can say "I am using random numbers starting at page X of the book", and other researchers can replicate my methods using the same, but still random, numbers.

    • @gteixeira
      @gteixeira Před 9 měsíci

      It is much easier to use a known pseudo-random formula with a seed. Any future experiment can just change the formula or the seed.

    • @tomkandy
      @tomkandy Před 4 měsíci

      @@gteixeira That's only true it we trust you not to have cherry picked the seed. In situations which are adversarial, like random numbers used in cryptographic algorithms, you need to prove you haven't generated something that weakens the algorithm. That's where the Rand numbers are useful, although using things like digits from pi is more common.

    • @gteixeira
      @gteixeira Před 4 měsíci

      @@tomkandy You can also cherry pick the page of the book, so it goes the same.

    • @tomkandy
      @tomkandy Před 4 měsíci

      @@gteixeira there's a lot less opportunity to cherry pick with a few hundred pages than with an entire 32bit or whatever seed

    • @gteixeira
      @gteixeira Před 4 měsíci

      @@tomkandy If there is any suspicion of seed tampering, then get one that no one will believe is tampered, like 0, 11, 69, 0xBADDAD, 0xFACED1CC, ...

  • @pianomanhere
    @pianomanhere Před 3 lety +10

    I heard it has a great cliffhanger in the middle, a climax 3/4 through and a great ending. As codified in a commonly-used book, the numbers are no longer random in practice, but merely in original plan and compilation.

  • @jclown5938
    @jclown5938 Před 3 lety +27

    "$68"
    *We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close*

  • @altoclef4249
    @altoclef4249 Před 3 lety +89

    The fact that the price is just 1$ off annoys me to death.

    • @CosmiaNebula
      @CosmiaNebula Před 3 lety +39

      I agree, 67 is just better, since it's a prime number.

    • @chixenlegjo
      @chixenlegjo Před 3 lety +5

      yeah I love primes.

    • @connorml
      @connorml Před 3 lety +1

      @Janice Hajadi r/whoosh

    • @kkai8935
      @kkai8935 Před 3 lety +1

      the writer : oh sorry, i'll increase it for $351

    • @Zachyshows
      @Zachyshows Před 3 lety

      @@kkai8935 increases by 2694
      BFDI reference that people probably won't get

  • @Michaelonyoutub
    @Michaelonyoutub Před 3 lety +10

    Reminds me of when I was working on research with my professor for one semester and I had to program in C a monte carlo simulation which requires millions and millions of random numbers and we had the problem of having to produce those random numbers. There is a default random number generator in C which produces random numbers but they are only really random when you look at any one individual number, when you use many consecutive random numbers some patterns can emerge which would make it no longer random. We had to use a new method of generating random numbers where we used a few random numbers from the default generator to seed our new generator which involved a more complex function to generate random numbers which wasn't as likely to have patterns over many consecutive numbers. Moral of the story, default randomness is pretty bad but randomness on top of randomness on top of randomness, can be good enough.

    • @Cutest-Bunny998
      @Cutest-Bunny998 Před 3 lety +3

      Yes the C++ default since I think like 1997 (or at least sometime in the 90s) uses a Mersenne Twister psuedorandom generator that is pretty flawed, and the C standard library uses a very flawed psuedorandom generator in most implementations of the specification. Most psuedorandom generators are also not properly seeded and as a result become even more predictable than the best-case scenario for that implementation of a generator. For anything needing a more random number series you want a random generator that relies on either a cryptographically secure psuedorandom generator whose cycle is longer than your use-case cares about/whose seed is from a more random source usually provided to you by the operating system, or if it's truly needed a truly random or effectively random equivalent hardware source can be exploited, including such things as audio recordings of atmospheric noise or user input based generation. The holy grail of random though is quantum phenomena like radioactive decay, which are the only real sources I'm aware of that cannot be considered psuedorandom (in terms of the pure theory of algorithmic determinism) because the Bell inequalities imply no hidden variables exist, which means that decay can be used safe from any prediction/inference attack, even by an attacker who knows the entire state of all content in all realities (likely an overestimation as just really knowing the entire state of reality within the light cone of the random generator, assuming superluminal information transfer is truly forbidden, is enough) to the maximum allowed/possible accuracy (that being incomplete since the Heisenberg uncertainty principle fundamentally means certain information about reality is mutually exclusive since momentum and position cannot both be measured to a high precision because quantum fields and the waves that move them can never support both values simultaneously independent of measurement) due to the decay being one example of what we believe is a non-deterministic quantum phenomena. Though, of course there is always a chance we are wrong about everything, so I'll add there is a that even quantum sources might have some weakness to this we just dont know about due to us having a fundamental misunderstanding about seemingly incontrovertible aspects of quantum phenomena.

  • @Alchemydude667
    @Alchemydude667 Před 3 lety +6

    Feels like a book like this would be a good double cipher. Cipher one translates to a page number and line, cipher two decodes the numbers into letters

  • @denn1222
    @denn1222 Před 3 lety +107

    He has the same name from the dork at Wendover Productions, Sam

    • @DerVolman
      @DerVolman Před 3 lety +5

      Wow! That's amazing!

    • @denn1222
      @denn1222 Před 3 lety +1

      George W. Bush thanks bush

    • @Michael_Chater
      @Michael_Chater Před 3 lety +1

      What a fascinating, unfavourable and influential discovery!

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 Před 3 lety

      This discovery will change the world.

    • @anniversarynotice1838
      @anniversarynotice1838 Před 3 lety

      Today, October 2nd, is Senior Citizens' Day.
      It is a statutory anniversary established in 1997 with the aim of promoting national measures, along with awakening public interest in the issue of senior citizens. And it is also the birthday of Allingsong (Gk), a Liverpool soccer player

  • @sagarock5528
    @sagarock5528 Před 3 lety +4

    Most random thing i heard today: being called idiot by HAI 2:33

  • @cantstopthebear
    @cantstopthebear Před 3 lety +22

    "Just as today's reddit memes can predict tomorrow's Instagram memes"

  • @nonyabissniss7526
    @nonyabissniss7526 Před 3 lety +36

    Philosophical question: since those numbers are printed in a book now, in an order, can they truly be called random anymore?

    • @phxcppdvlazi
      @phxcppdvlazi Před 2 lety +3

      How is that a philosophical question? Yes, of course they're random, why wouldn't they be? Randomness is more a measure of entropy or signal-to-noise ratio. Not sure what weird definition of random you're using.

    • @mizlia
      @mizlia Před 2 lety +7

      @@phxcppdvlazi I think what the original commenter was thinking of was more like uniqueness or novelty or unpredictability - concepts that are usually associated with randomness. If I were to use this book to create passwords or something, would those be harder or easier to guess than newly generated random passwords?

  • @daandanx
    @daandanx Před 3 lety +19

    4:09 OMG that guy is so quirky and *random!*

  • @kaiiorg
    @kaiiorg Před 3 lety +41

    4:20: Expected ")", found "EOF"

  • @freezedeve3119
    @freezedeve3119 Před 3 lety +13

    Those numbers stopped being random numbers when they printed them as book.

  • @EMOTIONOGRAPHY
    @EMOTIONOGRAPHY Před 3 lety +83

    "And yes, George Soros did pay me to tell that joke."
    How many Sorosbucks did you get? (Also, amazing joke.)

  • @ethanlust6305
    @ethanlust6305 Před 3 lety +16

    you are one of the only channels that uses a rly clickbaity title yet the video always lives up to it

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 Před 3 lety

      I don't think the video is living. It is not a living being.

    • @ethanlust6305
      @ethanlust6305 Před 3 lety +1

      Mamta Baranwal wow

  • @b33thr33kay
    @b33thr33kay Před 3 lety +27

    4:16 Aaargh, close that parenthesis!

  • @kakarroto007
    @kakarroto007 Před 3 lety +9

    The *Rand* company publishes a *Random* number book? How appropriate!

  • @DrewNorthup
    @DrewNorthup Před 3 lety +8

    Put more succinctly, and correctly, no closed system can generate true randomness; randomness requires an unbiased open system.

    • @randomobserver8168
      @randomobserver8168 Před 2 lety

      Is the universe even an open system? And if our knowledge of it is sufficient even to answer that either way, and the answer it yes, is it the only open system?

  • @dennism3586
    @dennism3586 Před 3 lety +6

    4:19 This snippet would spit out a syntax error as the parentheses are not matched up

  • @daofficalbagelboi548
    @daofficalbagelboi548 Před 3 lety +6

    The RAND corporation sounds like some evil tech company in a superhero movie.

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 Před 3 lety +1

      There's a reference to it in Dr Strangelove. They call it the BLAND corporation.

  • @niharoad4483
    @niharoad4483 Před 3 lety

    Loved that Wendover Production mention❤️

  • @piedrostone4246
    @piedrostone4246 Před 3 lety

    4:07 VERY important. Thank you for including.

  • @giosworkshop475
    @giosworkshop475 Před 3 lety +51

    *PROCEEDS TO SELL PI*

    • @TheNamesSnek
      @TheNamesSnek Před 3 lety +13

      technically, that entire book is contained within the digits of pi

    • @fakestory1753
      @fakestory1753 Před 3 lety

      @@TheNamesSnek that is not true

    • @SFSAtlas
      @SFSAtlas Před 3 lety +4

      @@fakestory1753 are you sure

    • @fakestory1753
      @fakestory1753 Před 3 lety

      @@SFSAtlas no , but if one knowledge themselves something like BBP formula , it will actually help understand how can you solve a problem(more efficiently) like this
      rather than just claiming something without proof

    • @Someone-ej7kd
      @Someone-ej7kd Před 3 lety

      @@TheNamesSnek hmm ok

  • @fqidz
    @fqidz Před 3 lety +15

    The author who used the google number generator to write his book:

    • @zman90
      @zman90 Před 3 lety +5

      I hate you for being called "N" and profile is of m

  • @jsl151850b
    @jsl151850b Před 3 lety +1

    Fun Fact: Robby the Robot's *second* film appearance was for the somewhat juvenile SciFi movie 'The Invisible Boy'. One of the meetings that the grownups were having was to determine the next project for their super computer. Random numbers table was a candidate project. Not a bad guess for 1957.

  • @hi_melnikov
    @hi_melnikov Před 3 lety +28

    As a какое-то русское имя I am offended by you not spelling my name correct

  • @jackfromdublin8683
    @jackfromdublin8683 Před 3 lety +234

    “$68”
    *So close , yet so far*

  • @Omar-cw5gg
    @Omar-cw5gg Před 3 lety +3

    4:25 Half as Interesting has become wholesome Chungus 100

  • @bazoo513
    @bazoo513 Před 3 lety +1

    As you mentioned, for the vast majority of uses a pseudo-random number generator will do. For the vast majority of _remaining_ applications (such as gambling machines or seeds for generating PKI key pairs) just a bit of additional entropy is needed, such as a human reaction time, hand tremor or somesuch (for example, PGP key generator asks the user to move a mouse around or type some random characters - of course, the _timing_ of keystrokes is used, not characters themselves). The only application that comes to mind where true randomness would come handy is one-time pad cryptography with large key size.
    And nowadays, for most applications one million digits is far too little.

  • @howdyhamster
    @howdyhamster Před 3 lety +1

    3:20 "No wait, you weren't suppose[sic] to find out about this super secret code!!!"

  • @comradesmile
    @comradesmile Před 3 lety +3

    This book: *exist*
    Nhentai sauce finders: it’s free real estate

  • @sergei_gruntovsky
    @sergei_gruntovsky Před 3 lety +6

    Modern computers absolutely CAN generate a true random numbers, which are used when the predictability can cause security issues.
    Google /dev/random vs. /dev/urandom

    • @ReaperUnreal
      @ReaperUnreal Před 3 lety +5

      Ehhhhhh, kinda sorta. It really depends on how you measure what you mean by random. Cryptographic random functions pass a suite of tests that guarantee that it's random enough. Whether or not that constitutes "true" randomness is basically a philosophical debate at that point, but the argument could be made that because it was generated by an algorithm and not a non-deterministic process that it's not "truly" random. That's where hardware random number generators come in, they'll measure something like shot noise, photon quantum effects, nuclear decay, things that are definitely non-deterministic. Those have an issue in that the events can have biases, but there's really complicated math that I don't fully understand that can combine sources of randomness to get rid of bias.
      So you can kind of see where the "sorta kinda" comes from. It depends on how you define "true random."

    • @sergei_gruntovsky
      @sergei_gruntovsky Před 3 lety +3

      @@ReaperUnreal yep, exactly. /dev/random requires a certain amount of entropy (hardware rng), and otherwise blocks, waiting for it. It is as close to "true" random as that book (which also basically takes the data from a hardware rng).

    • @qingyangzhang6093
      @qingyangzhang6093 Před 3 lety +1

      the problem with these is they are too slow for many uses, and people would rather take pictures of lava lamps to generate randomness instead

    • @sergei_gruntovsky
      @sergei_gruntovsky Před 3 lety +1

      @@qingyangzhang6093 true :)
      Still better than a book though.

  • @artstsym
    @artstsym Před 2 lety +1

    My 101 STATS book had about 4 pages of random numbers at the back; it was genuinely pretty exciting the first time I realized this.

  • @jonadabtheunsightly
    @jonadabtheunsightly Před 3 lety +1

    Not sure about the other applications, but for cryptography, you absolutely positively must not use random numbers that have been published or previously used. It would completely annihilate any pretense of Perfect Forward Secrecy. You need fresh, secret, previously unknown and unused random numbers.

  • @carbonn9172
    @carbonn9172 Před 3 lety +33

    The chances of seeing 69 or 420 in there must be impossible

    • @bragapedro
      @bragapedro Před 3 lety +3

      Hmm... No? Since it is (supposed to be) truly random, it can happen

    • @carbonn9172
      @carbonn9172 Před 3 lety

      @@bragapedro Good point

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 Před 3 lety

      The chances of you being born are one in a trillion yet it happened. ; )

    • @greenbin3028
      @greenbin3028 Před 3 lety

      @@harsh3624 i wish i was unluckier

    • @avi8365
      @avi8365 Před 3 lety +6

      Chances of seeing 69 randomly at one glance=1%
      Chances of seeing 420 in a random glance= 0.1%
      If you have taken 100 glances then chances of seeing
      69= 63.4%
      420= 9.6%
      In 1000 glances
      69= 99.996%
      420= 63.3%
      So not impossible

  • @danielwright4987
    @danielwright4987 Před 3 lety +3

    As an engineering student I normally pay twice that for a book full of numbers

  • @NolePTR
    @NolePTR Před 3 lety +1

    Again, voltage tube fluctuations can be used today for random number generation. Or radioactive decay. All you need is some sensor that's prone to error (an unfiltered sensor), to generate them.

  • @user-rj4vr2sc2d
    @user-rj4vr2sc2d Před 2 lety +1

    1. Take a 10-sided dice
    2. Put it on a plate with a rod attached at the bottom
    3. Attach the rod to a motor and have it randomly shoot the dice up in the air
    4. Scan the number
    Boom. Random number machine.

  • @RedFlag12
    @RedFlag12 Před 3 lety +4

    If the numbers were 6 digits, this could be a book of the “holy numbers”

    • @kawabatayuri
      @kawabatayuri Před 3 lety +1

      YESSS, But its quite risky tho, because u could get a degenerate genre

  • @claytonp.4725
    @claytonp.4725 Před 3 lety +29

    "George Sorros paid me to say this" earned the like by itself

  • @Priyajit_Ghosh
    @Priyajit_Ghosh Před 3 lety +1

    Interviewer: Tell me a 6 digit Number
    Me: 177013
    Interviewer: You are hired.

  • @ashmanideep6253
    @ashmanideep6253 Před 3 lety +1

    **INTENSE COMPUTING OF DIGITS OF PI IN BACKGROUND AND PICKING RANDOM NUMBER WITH RANDOM DIGITS**

  • @Waiel
    @Waiel Před 3 lety +4

    Or you could just say “hey Siri, give me a random number”

  • @rparl
    @rparl Před 3 lety +3

    When I went to MIT, we all bought the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. It was very thick, even though it was printed on extremely thin paper. Since it was published by the Chemical Rubber Company, we called it the CRC book. Much later they realized that the Mathematics portion was the really popular part and came out with the CRC Mathematical Tables, which I also bought, as it was so much more convenient. I still recall the many pages of both base 10 and natural logarithms. This was way before hand calculators.

  • @shargo498
    @shargo498 Před 3 lety

    The best thing about this channel is your horrible jokes
    I love it

  • @reihanboo
    @reihanboo Před 3 lety +1

    Okay so, here's how I do 'true randomness'.
    Google random number between 1-9.
    Pick 5 numbers. Add 1.
    So, 22222 -> 33333
    Google random number between 1-9, again.
    Pick 5 numbers, times 2, add the number from before.
    44444*2 -> 88888 + 33333 -> 122221.
    If you need 5 numbers, pick off any numbers.
    122221 -> 12222
    If you need more than the total number, in this case 6, add numbers from google random number generator in a random place.
    For example, I need 8 numbers.
    11823212.
    Not random enough? Pick a random number within and replace it with google's random number.

  • @123sendodo4
    @123sendodo4 Před 3 lety +4

    You could maybe talk about how everyone in the universe could violate the Hong Kong national security law

  • @parzh
    @parzh Před 3 lety +5

    4:35 "Steal millions from casinos" - yeah, except it was $250,000 bucks in a week

    • @askreddit2431
      @askreddit2431 Před 3 lety

      Ten weeks 2.5 millions?

    • @parzh
      @parzh Před 3 lety

      @@askreddit2431 I mean, the whole endeavor was going on for only one week

  • @demonschnauzer1555
    @demonschnauzer1555 Před 2 lety

    0:41 lmao nice Beat Bobby Flay reference

  • @peteraleksandrovich5923
    @peteraleksandrovich5923 Před rokem +1

    Figuring out how to predict a slot machine isn't stealing, it's figuring out the game.

  • @jeremychan9799
    @jeremychan9799 Před 3 lety +3

    HAI: we all know what will happen next, the couple reunites...
    Me who just finished Noughts and Crosses:
    *surprised pikachu face*

  • @yokowan
    @yokowan Před 3 lety +6

    i love how the russian text is just "some kind of russian name"

    • @harsh3624
      @harsh3624 Před 3 lety

      "Some kind of English name"

  • @TakeWalker
    @TakeWalker Před 3 lety +1

    I love the stock videos they use in these things. Take, for example, the one that's supposed to suggest being chained to a computer. Ignoring the fact that there is no obvious lock on the chain, it extends from one of the man's wrists to the other. He's not actually chained to anything whatsoever, he just can't move his hands more than a foot or so apart. He can get up and leave at any time! And yet it somehow conveys a message.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 Před 3 lety

      My takeaway from the stock footage is that every nerd in the world is a pretty girl, but you can tell she's a nerd because she wears glasses or owns a big book, or maybe both.

  • @jst7714
    @jst7714 Před 3 lety +1

    "Under direction you granted me as director of weapons research and development, Mr President, I conducted a study by the BLAND Corporation about a doomsday device..." - Dr. Strangelove

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 Před 3 lety +1

      "...not a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious. "

  • @pugz3230
    @pugz3230 Před 3 lety +3

    Fun fact: There is a quantum random number generator at a university in Australia.

  • @ludwig4029
    @ludwig4029 Před 3 lety +3

    read the title as "why a book of 68 random numbers sells for $1 million"

  • @KobKoi
    @KobKoi Před 3 lety +1

    I know this book, its quite handy for encoding samples on consumer tests with some 3-digit codes. Surely you could just make 3x 3-digit codes that _look_ random for 3 test samples, but eventually there will be some sort unconscious formula that you're following without even realising it.
    Its lot easier, better, and quicker (which is most important thing and the most surprising part for some that its actually quicker), to just open this book randomly, point your finger somewhere, and just use the numbers which are there.

    • @AliceDTRH_
      @AliceDTRH_ Před 2 lety

      Doesn't "opening the book randomly" defeat the purpose of trying to get random numbers? You might still have an inherent bias in where you're getting the numbers from.

  • @WhatWeCallDollarsArentMoney

    "Wrong order of random" is my new favorite phrase.

  • @whatbizarreactisthecaninep791

    just sounds like a collection of nhentai goodies.

  • @somniad
    @somniad Před 3 lety +9

    "steal millions from casinos"
    It's only considered "stealing" because casinos want people to see it that way. He understood the world and leveraged that knowledge. It's hard for that to ever be cheating.
    Good video besides, though! Thanks for all the neat stuff.

    • @larkwong7925
      @larkwong7925 Před 3 lety +1

      that is the definition of cheating in most casinos. pretty absurd world we live in tsk tsk tsk

    • @somniad
      @somniad Před 3 lety

      @@larkwong7925 indeed. It's an incomprehensible definition.

  • @frackert
    @frackert Před 3 lety +1

    "Lava lamps", I'm pretty sure this is what Cloudflare uses for encryption keys. Very cool

  • @gustavofring4788
    @gustavofring4788 Před 3 lety +9

    Who would win?
    An expensive book
    or
    import random

  • @sammythebest9520
    @sammythebest9520 Před 3 lety +42

    why did I click on this

  • @aidansunbury9341
    @aidansunbury9341 Před 3 lety

    The humor is by far the best part of the video

  • @Animotion1000
    @Animotion1000 Před 3 lety

    "Charmingly shadowy" I love it.

  • @JPTQJR
    @JPTQJR Před 3 lety +7

    As soon as I heard Rand i knew this video was about Statistics

    • @hannesproductions4302
      @hannesproductions4302 Před 3 lety

      Ayn Rand...

    • @jackwtanderson4679
      @jackwtanderson4679 Před 3 lety

      Could you not tell by the title of the video that it was about statistics?

    • @JPTQJR
      @JPTQJR Před 3 lety

      @@jackwtanderson4679 It's been a long while since I saw this book for Statistics class so I forgot the title of the book

  • @liambohl
    @liambohl Před 3 lety +3

    Syntax error: unmatched '(' on line 4:20
    Warning: unused variable "variable"

  • @dan-tv1kp
    @dan-tv1kp Před 3 lety

    There are a bunch of secure RNGs online. I know of one that measures observed zero-point energy in a vacuum, one that performs permutations on the data of highly variable video feeds, and some really good psuedo-RNGs involving large feedback shift register networks. If you don't feel comfortable using ones on the inet, just generate a whole bunch of them, and XOR them.
    Still would be cool to have a book w/ random numbers guaranteed secure by RAND Corp. though.
    Oh, and the standard deviates thing is a neat feature.

  • @presau
    @presau Před 3 lety +2

    Just had to mention how perfect the checkmark at 5:17 is.

  • @jonasdatlas4668
    @jonasdatlas4668 Před 3 lety +5

    How random! I love it.