My idea of what random actually looks like has been affected a lot by generating random numbers with a computer. They just don’t actually look that random.
I read an anecdote about the iPod shuffle (hey kids - it was a music player with no screen so you could not choose songs directly) - they initially set it to be genuinely random in the way it chose the next song - people didn’t like it. It didn’t _feel_ random to pick a song you only just listened to again. So they had to make an algorithm that was sort-of-random but with some constraints to make it feel how we expect randomness to be.
I read an anecdote about the iPod shuffle (hey kids - it was a music player with no screen so you could not choose songs directly) - they initially set it to be genuinely random in the way it chose the next song - people didn’t like it. It didn’t _feel_ random to pick a song you only just listened to again. So they had to make an algorithm that was sort-of-random but with some constraints to make it feel how we expect randomness to be.