pippin;300323 Wrote: > Can you describe what a "similar but not identical" random sequence is? > You are correct, my car radio plays IDENTICAL sequenced. But I don't > fully understand what you mean, then. To have similar sequences is not > necessarily a correlation, a correlations means predictability.
Correlation does NOT mean predictability: the most common statistical meaning of correlation is the Pearson correlation coefficient, which is what I have been referring to here (see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CorrelationCoefficient.html if you want the gory details). The amount of correlation between two random variables measures the linear dependence of those two random variables, but does not imply prediction (the post hoc ergo prompter hoc fallacy). If I spoke Perl (I don't - I'm a Python hacker), I would dig into the source and see what RNG gets used for the shuffle. But I don't feel like spending the time to learn enough Perl and learn the ins-and-outs of its RNG(s) to do that right now. I don't use shuffle mode for SqueezeCenter much anyway! -- kmr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kmr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10664 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47242 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
