Eric Cordian wrote:
> Steve Schear writes:
>
>
>>Stephen Wolfram's book, "A New Kind of Science," is nothing if not
>>interesting. This encyclopedia-sized volume traces how his fascination
>>with cellular automata, beginning in the 1970s, led him to spend decades
>>exploring the significance
I KNOW WHAT YOU'LL DO NEXT SUMMER
What do galaxies, stockbrokers and style gurus have in common? A set of
numbers that describes everything they do. Does nature's hidden program
mean we're all deeply predictable, asks John Casti
Cover story dead tree New Scientist magazine.31 August 02.
Wolframs
Steve Schear writes:
> Stephen Wolfram's book, "A New Kind of Science," is nothing if not
> interesting. This encyclopedia-sized volume traces how his fascination
> with cellular automata, beginning in the 1970s, led him to spend decades
> exploring the significance of complexity created from
It would seem that while the bitstream generated by the center column of
rule 30 might be a good random number source, its repeatability is the very
thing that detracts from its usefulness in cryptographic application. An
obviously poor application would be to have a "one time pad" where two
parti
