What does it mean for something to be /”random/”? We might have an intuitive idea for what randomness looks like, but can we be a bit more precise about our definition for what we would consider to be random? It turns out there are multiple definitions for what’s random and what isn’t, but a particularly interesting idea is that of Kolmogorov randomness. Here, we take a look at Kolmogorov randomness (defined in terms of Kolmogorov complexity) to understand what the intuition behind it is and to develop a sense for what it really means for a sequence of values to be random.

0:00 Randomness
1:18 Kolmogorov Complexity
3:52 Kolmogorov Randomness

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