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Does this feel random, exactly?

2D poisson process

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Dec 21st, 2009 at 02:30:30 PM EST
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what's that? the political axis thingy? all i'm seeing on the screen is a collection of blob points!

and yes, it does look random, what am i missing?

Eventually physical reality trumps narrative. It can just take a long time. Derrick Jensen

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Dec 21st, 2009 at 03:33:26 PM EST
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The name of the picture is "poisson.png", which suggests it's a Poisson distribution (unless Migeru misnamed it to fool us).
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Mon Dec 21st, 2009 at 03:38:06 PM EST
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Could be a Poisson distribution ... could be a whole bunch of things.  

Without the algorithm or knowing the dependent and independent axises ... it's semantically null.

Thinking about it a tad more ...

It could also be "semantically reflective" of the epistemological presuppositions of the viewer, analyzer.  Humans really like patterns, ya know.

by ATinNM on Mon Dec 21st, 2009 at 03:49:29 PM EST
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