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This is about an interesting way to produce a pseudo random sequence. From the title I was expecting something a little different, more akin to Diceware [1], but without dice. Thinking of random numbers, but debiasing with John von Neumann's method sprung to my mind.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware



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