Re GR, Poisson distributions, alleged "randomness"

[Monte Davis]

Um, make that via 3quarksdaily

 

http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/12/21/what-does-randomness-look-like/

 

"Imagine, for a moment, that you are working for the British intelligence,
and you're tasked with solving this problem. Someone hands you a piece of
paper with a cloud of points on it, and your job is to figure out if the
pattern is random."

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