Randomly

Sometimes I've observed a particular kind of scope confusion that trips people up. You put your metadata in your data and then end up thinking total nonsense. A good example is Infinity. Infinity isn't a number, it's a statement about the behaviour of numbers. It's metadata, and you shouldn't treat it like data. My favourite trick when I see these is adverbing them. Ban the word "infinity". Instead, only use "infinitely". A number can't be infinite, but a series of numbers can go infinitely. I think we should apply the same thing to random. There's no such thing as a random number, and we should stop saying it. Instead, a number can be generated randomly.