Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I can only do this for a little while because it really hurts my head to do it for long (it's just a lot to concentrate on) but I've been doing a little mapping of changes in noise patterns inside π this afternoon… What I'm examining initially is how chaotic (or uniform) ranges of π are. For example, the chart below covers the first six million digits of π.

Points at the top of the chart are ranges that have high noise averages and points, at the bottom are low noise, with the heavy black line showing chaotic fluctuations over time. The fine green line is the same thing, but instead of analyzing π it's analyzing white noise (ie. a control variable), which as expected is essentially flat and has a very even distribution when looked at in these block sizes.

So in short, π is not white noise or random numbers… there is a pattern in there, and there is a signal in there (in my opinion). It's just a matter of figuring out how to extract it.