I’ve been thinking about true randomness recently. I was thinking of a way to explain to somebody in layman’s terms and I came up with this.
OMG it’s a plinko board! So we all know what this is, right? Whether you’ve seen this as a game in Mario Party or a live streamer trying to farm viewers, the point is that you drop a marble in one of the open slots and it will drop down, bounce around on the pegs and land in one of the spaces below. But how come the marble doesn’t land in the same space every time you drop it from the same location? Well…I don’t know actually-physics or some shit probably. There’s probably many variables why it isn’t always the same. But the point is that this board can represent how random numbers are generated using code. So now you see the limitations, right? Good!