chaos with a paper trail — every coin flip secretly a math equation in a trench coat.
means a sequence that looks statistically random but is actually generated by a deterministic algorithm from a fixed starting point.
from emerged with early computing when von neumann in 1946 needed fast randomness for simulations and built the middle-square method, admitting outright that anyone who thinks arithmetic can produce randomness is in a state of sin.
mersenne twister — powers python and excel, period of 2^19937-1.
debian openssl bug — 2008 flaw made ssh keys guessable across thousands of servers.
pokemon rng abuse — speedrunners predict seeds to manipulate in-game drops.
linear congruential generator — 1950s workhorse, still runs inside many old c libraries.