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13 years ago
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Stop spamming my journal box. Okay that was mean, but really lets keep it clean her folks. It's cool that your going to be giving away free art and you want to generate interest, however I've been noticing behavior:
1. Altruistic: This person just rolls random numbers on actual dice. Random number generators are interesting, but programs can not give you a truly random number as most are deterministic and not truly random. If you've ever done any programming you would know this. If not well, I'm telling you now. Only seen one person do this.
2. Favoritist: This person has friends sign up and mysteriously they all get in on it. This is not mysterious. Why even have the raffle? Just draw your friends and don't be a prick.
3. Mixture: Just what it says, so you don't seem like a total favoritist. Some may re-roll to alleviate them of picking guilt... which means dick all.
Nit picking? Yes I am. Just sort of a generally out there that people do pay attention so that if you are going to spam me at least be a number one in all that you do. Thats all I ask.
1. Altruistic: This person just rolls random numbers on actual dice. Random number generators are interesting, but programs can not give you a truly random number as most are deterministic and not truly random. If you've ever done any programming you would know this. If not well, I'm telling you now. Only seen one person do this.
2. Favoritist: This person has friends sign up and mysteriously they all get in on it. This is not mysterious. Why even have the raffle? Just draw your friends and don't be a prick.
3. Mixture: Just what it says, so you don't seem like a total favoritist. Some may re-roll to alleviate them of picking guilt... which means dick all.
Nit picking? Yes I am. Just sort of a generally out there that people do pay attention so that if you are going to spam me at least be a number one in all that you do. Thats all I ask.
Okay, statistically the algorithmic response works out like... okay well crap its hard to type in equations to a browser window. So fuck it. I read the paper by Mads Haahr and a few others floating around out there and quite basically the algorithmic response is more random the better the range is. This is a strength in a large computation, between 1-1024(comparable to cryptography as 128 bit encryption which can be broken quite easily nowadays with... eh don't say too much silly zane, don't want to give the kids ideas :D) but not not so good in say 1-24. This is how it was designed. Which is still not as random as even some shabby dice.
Why I care? Yes I thought I should explain: I play tabletop DND and I hate it when players use laptops, as I seem to need to check if they cheat every so often and its annoying. Why I get this feeling is because of random number generators still being statistically full of fail. So I was hoping I could make them use random.org for my piece of mind. However it has statistical limitations as well.