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From: Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG.
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:00:36 -0600
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:

> On 06/28/2011 12:51 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Chris H <chris@phaedsys.org> writes:
> ...
>> So, rather than blanket statements regarding the unreliability of wikis,
>> or anecdotes regarding your friend the expert, are you claiming the
>> wikipedia author mis-quoted the statistics?  Or do you have a "more
>> reliable" source that says says something different?
>
> He's been asked several times now whether he has a more reliable source,
> and he hasn't bothered responding to those questions. That's pretty
> strong evidence that he doesn't have any, though it's not conclusive.

That seems like a pretty safe bet.  I just get really annoyed by people
who respond to wikipedia quotes by dismissing it as "unreliable" or "not
authoritative" or any of a dozen other near-synonyms, as though
reliability were a boolean function, and as though any encyclopedia has
ever been useable as a source for... well, just about anything beyond
general information or an initial overview before turning to real
sources, really.