Stamets@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIt's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1502arrow-down132
arrow-up1470arrow-down1imageIt's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck.startrek.websiteStamets@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-squareintensely_humanlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down3·1 year 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-down9·edit-21 year 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.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year 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-up3·1 year agothere exist other random distributions than the uniform distribution
minus-squareintensely_humanlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year 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.