I really don't think Tim is suggesting this scheme, and I think he absolutely understands flaws of the scheme.
Now the interesting part: How can you construct a scientific test to prove (or falsify) the postulate that a software uses such scheme? -Øystein On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Guido Flohr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Along these lines, a friend of mine who also works in the gaming > industry said that they often use dice that are generated in something like > the following fashion: The computer internally creates a 36-card deck, each > with one of the 36 possible dice rolls. Then it deals out 18 cards from > this deck to get 18 dice rolls. Then it reshuffles and starts over to get > the next 18 rolls. > > What you describe is a completely biased scheme. Your friend’s company > maybe implemented it in order to avoid trolls complaining about them > cheating? > > > > > With this scheme, you never get (for example) three double 6's in a > row. Rarely does anyone notice anything strange about the dice, and if > people are not told what is going on, there are typically far fewer > complaints about the dice. > > A set of truly random real-world dice may produce subsequent double sixes > until the heat death of the universe. This is called randomness. > Randomness has no memory, remember? > > > > > I mentioned this concept on BGOnline once (a "hardcore" BG community) > and predictably, they hated it. So that's another piece of evidence to > support what Rich Heimlich said. > > They predictably disapproved your improvements, yes. This is called > rationalism, also know as common sense. > > Others have already mentioned it: You can run gnubg with your own > personally, manually rolled dice from your own backgammon set. Try it out! > > <spoiler-alert>You will continue losing!</spoiler-alert> > > Tim, it’s 2017, and considering the state of the art of hard- and software > it is absolutely normal that artificial intelligence beats human > intelligence in games like backgammon or chess on a more than regular > basis. If you think that gnubg has to cheat for beating you, then become a > professional backgammon player and be rich! > > <spoiler-alert>You will be broke in no time at all!</spoiler-alert> > > If you you are positive that gnubg cheats, why not install another > software and troll their support forum for a change? > > Regards! > — > Oh, Lord, please let it rain brains! > _______________________________________________ > Bug-gnubg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg >
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