Stamets@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.world · 8 months agoIt's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1463arrow-down131
arrow-up1432arrow-down1imageIt's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck.startrek.websiteStamets@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square91fedilink
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down3·8 months 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-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down7·edit-28 months 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-squareEranziel@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 months agoRandom pick without replacement is no less random than random pick with replacement. You just have a continuously smaller pool to pick from. It’s absolutely possible to have better randomness/shuffle without repeating songs so often.
minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agothere exist other random distributions than the uniform distribution
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoYou’re thinking of a random sequence. We’re talking about shuffling according to a random seed.
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.
Random pick without replacement is no less random than random pick with replacement. You just have a continuously smaller pool to pick from.
It’s absolutely possible to have better randomness/shuffle without repeating songs so often.
there exist other random distributions than the uniform distribution
You’re thinking of a random sequence. We’re talking about shuffling according to a random seed.