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thegeezer <thegeezer@×××××××××.net> schrieb: |
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> On 06/26/2014 11:07 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: |
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>> It is worth noting that my approach has the tendency of generating random |
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>> characters in sequence. |
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> sorry but had to share this http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/ |
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:-) |
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I'm no mathematician, but well, I think the swapping approach fixes it. What |
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this makes clear, however, is that randomness on its own does not completely |
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ensure unpredictable items if combined with other functions. One has to |
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carefully think about it. I, for myself, would always stay away from using |
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modulo to clip the random numbers. It will always create bias. My first idea |
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introduced predictable followers (you always knew that the next char had a |
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specific probability related to the tail length of the list). |
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You can actually learn from Dilbert comics. ;-) |
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