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There is a difference between "random in theory" and "random in practice"... see: http://blog.maxshinnpotential.com/2017/11/05/how-you-should-be-shuffling-cards
by trombonechamp 8y ago
There is a difference between "random in theory" and "random in practice"... see: http://blog.maxshinnpotential.com/2017/11/05/how-you-should-be-shuffling-cards.html http://blog.maxshinnpotential.com/2017/11/05/how-you-should-...
- SomewhatLikely 8y agoFor instance, the assumption that a single card riffle into a deck will put it in a random location. In reality it would probably be something more like a bell curve around the middle.
- fredhohman 8y agoAuthor here. Definitely true that you need a random number generator for this to work. See this relevant response to my tweet with a paper describing how bad humans are at picking random numbers: https://twitter.com/fredhohman/status/1007718733186396161 https://twitter.com/fredhohman/status/1007718733186396161
- trombonechamp 8y agoThere is actually a pretty simple algorithm people can use (in real time) if they want to generate random numbers: http://blog.maxshinnpotential.com/2017/07/05/can-humans-generate-random-numbers.html http://blog.maxshinnpotential.com/2017/07/05/can-humans-gene...