uzalud comments on Can you recognize a random generator? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: uzalud 28 December 2011 06:14:24PM 0 points [-]

Yes, I misspoke. The question is to discern between fair and biased random generators, not between random and non-random ones. As benelliott pointed out, stateless random bit generators seem to have quite unequal probability distributions of output sequences.