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Random, from radioactive decay

A CAJOE Geiger counter, a Raspberry Pi, and a comparison of one gap between decay events with the next. If the first is shorter the bit is a one, if the second is shorter it is a zero, and equal gaps are thrown away.

Nothing here generates a number. The bias cancels by symmetry rather than by correction, which is why the raw stream is worth measuring at all: everything below is that measurement, taken continuously and not smoothed.

The same bits, drawn: the entropy views live on tinymachines.ai, beside the instrument itself.

The source

Geiger daemonchecking

Asking the Geiger box.

Anti-cloud. Host local, think global.

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