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Ryan Bressler
1:05
i wonder if you could do soemthing with random number generators?

sleepy kitty
1:05
someone else had the idea of studying random number generators, and that could be neat, but it's totally taken :)
haha
yes
Ryan Bressler
1:05
you could do reverse simulation of generators

sleepy kitty
1:06
what's that about?
Ryan Bressler
1:06
i've only read about it a littel
you make a bunch of guesses about machine state
and attempt to statistically reconstruct the seed / progression of random numbers
meaning you can break encryption / sercurity stuff
you could do something on quantum algorhythems for basic problems in number theory
(ie thigns that would run on as of yet ypothetical quantum computers)

sleepy kitty
1:09
yeah
hmm, those last two look pretty good
being theoretical never stopped a mathematician