fredhohman

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   by fredhohman 8y ago

   Thanks! This was a side project for me. I'm doing my PhD right now so all my current writing is funneled into my research. But Idyll is great for these types of articles, so I'm looking forward to doing more in the future. The cre
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   by fredhohman 8y ago

   Author 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/fredhohm
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   by fredhohman 8y ago

   Superficially, any arrangement of cards should be equally likely to exist, i.e., no one ordering should be favored over another. I'm a bit ill-equipped to go much further than that currently, but the Numberphile video linked in the pos
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   by fredhohman 8y ago

   Author here: I link to this video in the post—it was what originally sparked my interest to do the visualization! The whole channel is really great.