Quote from: LbtalkL on December 04, 2019, 02:27:49 PM

I am just curious about how the online gambling site generated winners like on dice, it is truly random and not pre-programmed? how can they prove it? Is their programming can be checked and verified online by the public or these gambling sites has license to operate? Do they need to get a license? So many questions came out in mind.

If a gambling site doesn't use random numbers or uses a flawed RNG it risks being exploited. It's in their best interest to the best possible RNG.

Quote from: Debonaire217 on December 04, 2019, 03:07:25 PM

Technically if they are following some regulations on how the gambling site should work, it should be random and strictly no other codes attached to manipulate the outcomes. But since there are no such restrictions in the gambling platforms, I think there is still a bit of a hole where the luck favors the house most of the time. But still, it could be considered profitable if you are lucky enough.

The house has a built-in advantage called the house edge. Again, if they fiddled with the numbers it could turn against them. For example in some (most? all?) dice games the players can chose low or high, so if the house favored one outcome and players noticed that they would start bidding in the other outcome and clean the bankroll.

Quote from: deisik on December 04, 2019, 06:07:12 PM

That said, I don't know how it can possibly trump "human perception of randomness" as this perception, as you call it, allows to override the randomness of something, and make decisions precisely based on that randomness (or rather its override). I don't know either how that can be construed as an impractical use of randomness as it is quite the opposite. To sum it up, if you encounter something ostensibly random and seldom, expect more of it in about or around

I don't know what this means, other than humans are bad at generating randomness? You also seem to say that random must be rare. It's not rare, it's random. It can happen 3 times today and then never again for 100 years.

Quote from: deisik on December 04, 2019, 06:07:12 PM

Then what about stars being grouped in galaxies? This grouping is said to be entirely random as otherwise the whole theory of the Big Bang doesn't hold. I think you can't go beyond that as far as randomness is concerned as there is no manifestation of randomness of a larger scale. Is this an optical illusion too according to you?

Galaxies are not random, they're bound by gravity. If you mean the initial distribution of matter then, again, random doesn't mean uniform distribution so I think being random would actually explain clumps of matter forming and the coalescing into stars and so on. Big Bang is thought to have started with lower (than today) entropy and it has been increasing since then but it's a whole different topic.