Folks, I have come late to this conversation, presumably because I live in a different timezone, so please excuse me if it was addressed in the details.
A Couple of points - The use of appropriate seeds is a well known way of making something effectively random. Surely once we have it the last saved time + the current time would be effective seeds. this would initiate a different pattern every load, and every time the random function is used. - For a one shot random items this may not be relevant but if one really wants to shuffle a list the whole list should be shuffled and then deterministically selected, or each time something is randomly selected remove it from the list of potential items otherwise a pure random process will return to the same item before all items have being see on average 50% of the time. Regards Tony On Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 5:39:15 AM UTC+10, Mohammad wrote: > > Thanks Matt! > > On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 11:56:31 PM UTC+4:30, Matthew Lauber > wrote: >> >> All, I've updated my PR ( >> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/3712) to be always >> deterministic, using first the operand (so you can trigger updates with >> buttons) next a seed set to the time at startup by startup tiddler, falling >> back to a static/hardcoded seed. >> >> @Jeremy, there's a question on that PR for you regarding where you want >> that startup tiddler to belong in the core. >> >> Here's hoping we can get this over the finishline for 5.1.22! >> >> Matt >> >> On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 3:47:38 AM UTC-4, Mohammad wrote: >>> >>> As there is no random filter (I expect to have it with math operators) >>> in TW core, is it possible using machine clock and TW 5.1.20+ math ops >>> create a macro to generate random numbers? >>> >>> >>> Best wishes >>> Mohammad >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/39a98042-1fc4-4a7a-a4eb-7976649f1982%40googlegroups.com.
