Maggie’s For All The Statistics and Numbers Geeks

[lash]

Here’s a fun thing about online poker games and odds for a specific deal:

How the Math of Shuffling Cards Almost Brought Down an Online Poker Empire

Card dealers create a unique deck with each shuffle, something computers cannot replicate

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[RG0099]

Here’s a fun thing about online poker games and odds for a specific deal:

How the Math of Shuffling Cards Almost Brought Down an Online Poker Empire

Card dealers create a unique deck with each shuffle, something computers cannot replicate

www.scientificamerican.com

Wow

 

[Edsel]

I feel old

 

[Franko]

Computers don't do random numbers well. Years ago I remember reading about one of the big tech companies using lava lamps to create truly random numbers (instead of pseudo random numbers). It's a neat story and I suspect that some variant of this approach is still in use today.

 

[Makinchips208]

I’m so bad at shuffling cards that I end up arranging them in order again. Lol.

Wow! The probability for two people to shuffle the same deck? Crazy large numbers.

 

[Barneybdb]

 

[lash]

Computers don't do random numbers well. Years ago I remember reading about one of the big tech companies using lava lamps to create truly random numbers (instead of pseudo random numbers). It's a neat story and I suspect that some variant of this approach is still in use today.

Yeah. That’s exactly the issue.