4: Randomness, What Happens Without Sleep, and Stardew Valley

What are the uses of randomness, and how do we even get it? What happens to your body when you don't sleep? And is Stardew Valley secretly... a horror game? Links we Discuss: Infinite Monkey Theorem ResultsThe Hollow Mask IllusionSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: Ella making random noises, chiptune drums, dice fanfiction, the infinite monkey grant, gggggggggggggg, everyone guesses 7 and picks Rock, a very funny joke for our particle physicist listeners, a million random digits, minecraft seeds, the Russian sleep experiment creepypasta, sleep themed band names, the optimal nap, do the dip kids! Maureen the rocking chair champion, um actually it’s called Apophenia, tetris fanfiction, and ludo narrative disonance.Sources:                Humans Cannot Consciously Generate Random Number Sequences               The Predominance Of Seven And The Apparent Spontaneity Of Numerical Choices               Hannah Fry on Rock Paper Scissors               Winning at Rock Paper Scissors               Rock Paper Scissors Strategy               Hot Hand Fallacy and Gambler's Fallacy               How the Mind Works               Galton Discussing Dice for Statistical Experiments               LHC Tippet and the Random Number Table               A Million Random Digits               Radiation is Random               Modern Nuclear Chemistry               Sleep Deprivation               Sleep Stages               Sleep Debt               Obesity and Sleep Deprivation               Part 2               Cardiovascular Health and Sleep Deprivation               Microsleep               Hallucinations               Rat Sleep Deprivation Study               Fatal Familial Insomnia               Fatal Familial Insomnia Stories Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's MaxFunDrive! Still want to get in on the action? Follow this link to support this show (and get in on our limited-time keychain sale to benefit the Center for Constitutional Rights): https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn