Figuring out a model for a stochastically flat D16 / hexadecimal dice.

This is a truncated sphere with face positions determined by minimum energy surface-confined electrostatic repulsion calculation iterated until zero calculable difference occured in point positions.

All faces are circles of equal diameter.

It does means that there is no definite uppermost face when one face is on the deck. So... each numeral has a decimal point which is positioned to be uppermost when its opposite number is down against the table.

Still need to adjust numeral emboss depth for equal volume removed but that's down in the weeds with regard to fairness.

#Dice #Randomness #Chance #TTRPG #3DModelling #Hexadecimal

Every once in a while, I get that coffee/milk/sugar thing perfect. Not that the others are bad, but sometimes.. every now and then.. bullseye.

I like those days..

#coffee
#randomness

Brownies in the oven.
(not a euphamism)

#randomness
#food
#lolz

Random poll of the day..

If you couldnt leave the house, how many days of food dya think ya got?

#randomness
#poll

fly51fly (@fly51fly)

하버드 연구진(M. Zhao 등)은 LLM(대형 언어 모델)이 통계적 분포에서 무작위 수를 생성하는 데 큰 어려움을 보인다는 실험 결과를 보고합니다. LLM이 난수 생성과 확률적 샘플링에서 체계적 편향을 보이며 시뮬레이션·확률적 추론 응용에서 신뢰성 문제를 야기할 수 있음을 지적합니다 (arXiv:2601.05414).

https://x.com/fly51fly/status/2013733255078650246

#llm #randomness #evaluation #probabilistic

Aaaand #Emby subscription cancelled.
End of a mini era.
On to the next..

#MediaServer
#randomness

I think Im going to make an outrageous amount of
chicken n dumplings..

#randomness

One work hour to go..

Dont look at the clock..Dont look at the clock..Dont look at the clock..

Dammit.. looked at the clock again..

#WorkLife
#randomness

Ya ever notice the older ya get, the farther away the floor is to pick stuff up?

Dropped a nickel.. oof.. cya later..

#randomness

A recent experiment reveals how order can emerge from restless motion. Though not chaos in the technical sense, Brownian systems show how randomness can sustain structure, inviting careful reflection alongside humanity’s oldest creation stories.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/12/the-shape-of-chaos-when-disorder-persists-order-appears.html

#pagan #science #randomness #order #chaos #chaoscreatesorder #primordialwaters #creation #thevoid #khaos

Nonfiction that I thought was uneven, but worthwhile (YMMV):

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
by Brian Klaas

Exploration of the idea that small, essentially random details are what determine our lives and history itself.

Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud
by Joe Pepitone

Memoir of a baseball player's childhood abuse, promising but never-quite-great career, and more sex and booze per page than the Mötley Crüe book. Very flawed man. Celebrity cameos.

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
by Héctor Tobar

Essays, with some truly challenging ideas here and there. I can't decide if the memoir aspects make the book better or worse.

🧵 2/4

#latino #socialscience #randomness #baseball #1960s #nyyankees

Don't use haveged. Virtual machines should simply get their initial entropy from the already-seeded urandom pool of their hypervisor host. Processes don't "hang waiting for more entropy"; they hang because /dev/random inexplicably goes on strike. The answer to that problem is "never use /dev/random".
#virtualization #randomness #Linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11625681

How nice does a fresh OS install feel? So nice..

#tech
#randomness

My TVs are gonna be so mad when I take internet away from them..

#randomness

Eartha Kitt did Santa Baby best.

I wont be taking questions..
😛

#christmas
#music
#randomness

So Im bout to go set up my new robo router thinkin of an SDID and it dawned on me.. I hope its not too many letters..

domoarigatomrroboto

🤞😂

#networking
#randomness

I enjoy playing with language.

I know some people see it as kinda rigid but I see it from a communication standpoint.

How can I get this idea passed in its purest form? And how do I really communicate in real life?

I sometimes make up words. I randomly capitalize and use a lot of dots.. for timing..

Dja get that email?
yea... I know.. BUT..

Because at the end if the day its the connection. The insight into that person and thought.. imho.. 😊

#communication
#randomness

Mobius Tape

When you go to un-tape something, usually electrical, and after the fourth spin around you realize the tape has no beginning or end.

#randomness

What if we are galactic prisoners who have been sentenced to have our memories wiped and live a human life.

#randomness

For the record, Steel Cut Oats are the brown rice of the oat world. Nice flavor and texture, but it aint happenin anytime soon..

#randomness
#food