The Global Consciousness Project

The Skeptiko discussion is here:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/cl...wolf.3749/

It concerned (partly) this paper by Mason, Patterson and Radin:
http://www.deanradin.com/papers/RNG%20Mason.pdf

I think the kind of concerns Max is raising are more relevant to that study, because it looked at the output of single random number generators, and at the balance of 0s and 1s in that output, and the authors mostly seem to have minimised XOR processing (though they don't make it very clear how much remained because it was built into the hardware). But that is very different from the situation with the GCP, which is usually dealing with correlations between pairs of XORed random number generators.

OK. So I read the relevant posts (thanks for posting Chris) and Max's supposed dissertation about power quality is pretty much non-existent. There is less at Skeptiko on the topic than there is here. And all of it is empty conjecture with no supporting documentation, or even a cogent technical explanation. 

So for anyone who is still paying attention to this thread at this point, you can put this power issue to rest for now. As far as I can see, there was nothing said of any consequence at Skeptiko, or here, that demonstrates a valid technical case for power being the source of data corruption, or effects to the randomness of the RNG.

Case closed (for me) for now.