more to come, if there is popular demand.
“that was random!” is my younger son’s response to the many things i say that sound strange to him, and my computer has random access memory (ram), meaning that access to all memory locations is equally fast, as opposed to sequential access, as on a tape, where you have to go through a sequence of locations to reach the one you want.
in this sense, a side-loading truck provides random access to its load, while a back-loading truck provides sequential access.
while these uses of random are common, they have nothing to do with probability or statistics, and it’s no problem as long as the 