Almost any game you play has some kind of randomness or pseudorandomness which means that things change overtime somewhat unpredictably.

大多数你所玩过的游戏都有某种,随机数或者伪随机数,这就意味着每个事件都存在不可预测性。

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In other words, chance is already fated. The thing that stands for randomness in this book, the thing that looks like ordinary detail, has already been arranged to give you artistic pleasure.

换言之，机遇已经是命中注定的，这代表了,书中的那些随意安排，那些看起来普通的细节，其实已经据安排给大家一种美的享受。

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Well as we'll see later in the term, we're going to use a lot of randomness in a lot of our programs. Where we essentially do the equivalent of flipping coins or rolling dice.

我们会在晚些时候学到，我们会在很多程序中,用到一系列的随机检验,这跟掷骰子或者扔硬币差不多。

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It's sort of,it's a little like the markets and other things in that there's an element of randomness and an element of skill.

它可以说是一种有点像市场或者类似的其他东西,既包含了随机性,同时又包含了技术性。

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And so you have to figure out how to take that randomness out of the experiment.

因此你要明白怎么把随机数从试验中拿出来,有些时候你没法做一次有效的实验。

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Particularly when we get to using randomness.

尤其是我们开始用到随机检验的时候。

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What it refers to is people get the impression that they can control randomness.

准神奇式思考指的是人们认为,自己可以做出某些行动,解除原来的决定或改变历史

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Quasi-magical thinking is an illusion that they documented that occurs regularly in people, which they might deny if asked about, but there's an illusion that I can control randomness through my willpower.

准神奇式思考是一种错觉,会定期在人们的思维中出现,他们也许会否认这点,但的确存在一种错觉,使人误以为可以通过意志力控制随机事件

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They would rather lose - because they're sort of screwing around than- they could put out their best game and they would do better, but they might lose anyone given its, sort of, randomness.

他们宁愿因为,自己有点胡来而输掉-,因此他们可以玩出他们最好的技术,而且他们可以做得更好，但是他们也可以因为一定的随机性输给任何人。

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