▲ 471 ▼ It's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck. (startrek.website) submitted 2 years ago by Stamets@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world 94 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -6 points 2 years ago* (3 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Eranziel@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago there exist other random distributions than the uniform distribution permalink fedilink source parent [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago You’re thinking of a random sequence. We’re talking about shuffling according to a random seed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eranziel@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago there exist other random distributions than the uniform distribution permalink fedilink source parent
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago You’re thinking of a random sequence. We’re talking about shuffling according to a random seed. permalink fedilink source parent
