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| Jul 20, 2022 at 16:31 | comment | added | Chuu | @Brilliand You might be interested to know that poker players do this in practice. If you come to the conclusion that the right play might be 25% Call / 75% raise, glance at your watch. If the seconds hand is between 0 and 15 you call, and between 15 and 60 you raise. | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 23:30 | comment | added | okdewit | I'd argue that this would still be pseudorandom: It is seeded by the clock you're looking at, or by the state of your brain/memory in terms of which songs you can most easily recall. So it is deterministic, although the underlying factors would be extremely difficult to detect. Some hypothetical soulmate who would know your state of mind "infinitely well" might be able to guess the songs you'd pick and which modulo you'd prefer. | |
| May 31, 2017 at 21:56 | comment | added | Brilliand | Computers commonly use the current time as their random seed. Humans could do likewise: use your best estimate of the current time to the second, modulo an odd number (to ensure that the part of the time that you're bad at estimating gets lost in the shuffle). | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 17:38 | comment | added | mflo-ByeSE | I quite like this response and the modulo was exactly what I was thinking: pick a huge number (random as you can), and mod it to be in the correct range (mod 100 + 1). | |
| Mar 23, 2012 at 12:38 | history | answered | user unknown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |