@Stamets@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.world • 8 months agoIt's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1508
arrow-up1508imageIt's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck.startrek.website@Stamets@startrek.website to memes@lemmy.world • 8 months agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilink12•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-square@Honytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilink3•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-square@Eranziel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink8•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-square@vrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink3•8 months agothere exist other random distributions than the uniform distribution
minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•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.