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Somewhat related, but amusing: "Ask Siri" includes a ~1/6000 chance of "Siri, flip me a coin" returning "The coin landed on its edge!"

• quickthrower2 4y ago
  Built in house advantage!!
• bergenty 4y ago
  I wonder if it’s true randomness sourced from something physical or a programmed probability.
  • ygra 4y ago
    I'm not sure anyone would notice a difference, especially with an interface like Siri where you can't easily flip enough coins to create a statistical distribution. And even then, pseudo-randomness would mean there's a seed, but that's probably shared with all other users (and likely not only for coin flipping), so I guess from your perspective there won't be a difference.
    • Eleison23 4y ago
      I don't know about iOS/Siri in particular, but Linux these days has good sources of entropy that can make for good randomness. And I'm not sure why you believe that Siri's random seed would be shared with anyone?