It’s a fascinating field! Simplified: Make a machine that it is impossible to guess the likely outcome of with odds larger than 50/50.

We are talking any tiny advantageous guess here. If I predict 50/50 that a coin will go heads up, slight imbalances will cause it to go heads on average 51 times out of 100 tosses. Play for a dollar a million times, and I’m rich.

And if I know roughly how you will toss the coin, I can improve my prediction another tiny amount by knowing which side was up when you lift it up to toss it.

The field is about making a process that successfuly hides information so I can’t know what state the internal workings of the coin tosser is at any time. It has huge overlap with cryptography.

Makes sense, it’s very hard for computers to be really random.

You jest but the kind of stuff this guy works on is actually really fascinating

The just followed the rabbit hole that started with reading “teh pengu1n of d00m”