Stamets [Mirror] to [email protected] • 2 years agoIt's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1343
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoYou can definitely make a truly random shuffle that doesn’t play the same song twice within a gap of ten songs. You just make a list of all the song IDs that aren’t in the last ten played, and grab an item at a random index. Randomness is a texture not a shape. Dice are random despite only being able to present six outcomes.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•edit-22 years agoBut then it is not truly random, that is the point. The same song 10 times in a row also has a chance of happening in a truly random list.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agothere exist other random distributions than the uniform distribution
You can definitely make a truly random shuffle that doesn’t play the same song twice within a gap of ten songs.
You just make a list of all the song IDs that aren’t in the last ten played, and grab an item at a random index.
Randomness is a texture not a shape. Dice are random despite only being able to present six outcomes.
But then it is not truly random, that is the point.
The same song 10 times in a row also has a chance of happening in a truly random list.
there exist other random distributions than the uniform distribution