Applications of randomness

In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e., by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample.

method in which data is created algorithmically as opposed to manually

In telecommunications, a scrambler is a device that transposes or inverts signals or otherwise encodes a message at the sender's side to make the message unintelligible at a receiver not equipped with an appropriately set descrambling device. Whereas encryption usually refers to operations carried out in the digital domain, scrambling usually refers to operations carried out in the analog domain. Scrambling is accomplished by the addition of components to the original signal or the changing of some important component of the original signal in order to make extraction of the original signal di

statistical method in genetic epidemiology

function that is embodied in a physical structure and is easy to evaluate but hard to predict

scientific project about existence of a global consciousness

software program or hardware device that takes input from a random or pseudo-random number generator and automatically generates a password