How random are you?
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randomness game
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How HN took it
9 positive, 45 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 64 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Performance: 2 for, 5 againstIdea: 4 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, engaging game
From 2 comments
I just pretended I'm playing piano to a megamix of tracks which popped into my head and did 'well'. Only 2 people more random. Typing though, think the site said that's "easier…
gaiagraphia on HNI found it interesting when I felt my focus shift from the number-generating task to noticing (and responding to) the house’s guesses. As soon as I noticed it repeating its…
alwa on HN
Creative idea with typed and voice modes
From 2 comments
Very cool, I really like that you have a typed and voice version
nico on HNThat's quite a creative game idea. The house called 4 out of 40 number picks of mine. I did not use the speaking mode, so I do assume my randomness was inflated by that.
erstwhile_dev on HN
Objections
Voice input raises privacy concerns
From 2 comments
Is anyone sufficiently paranoid that their first thought was, "Are you going to train a model on my voice?" (Yes, I saw the "type the numbers" option.)
pavel_lishin on HNnice way to steal peoples voices.
atzmzt on HN
Speaking numbers may inflate randomness scores
From 2 comments
Does someone know whether people saw the "predictions" in the actual test? Because saying random numbers blindly is not what I was doing. After my next number was predicted…
kykat on HNThat's quite a creative game idea. The house called 4 out of 40 number picks of mine. I did not use the speaking mode, so I do assume my randomness was inflated by that.
erstwhile_dev on HN
Results text is confusing
From 1 comment
"You spread your picks more evenly than a random draw would. Your most-used number made up 23% of your picks, where a random draw's busiest number gets about 23%." ??? huh?
nightpool on HN
Predictor got stuck repeating one guess
From 2 comments
I got to 2/30 then it just guessed 7 from 30-50. Did I break it?
vorticalbox on HNYup! Most of the way I put the system together was by having it build several n-gram Markov models of your numerical sequences on the fly. But we also have a couple of predictors…
vunderba on HN
Requests
Add a hard mode closer to the original study
From 1 comment
You’re right. If you notice the instructions in the game, it encourages you to go as fast as you can. I keep the numbers up there just to make sure the voice recognition is…
vunderba on HN
Questions
How are predictions sealed?
From 1 comment
How are you sealing the predictions?
frutiger on HN
Which speech recognition model is used?
From 1 comment
Curious to know what model they use for speech recognition? Not familiar with the sota if someone can chime in.
coolThingsFirst on HN
Alternatives named
Aaronson oracle
From 1 comment
Here it is: https://aaronsonoracle.com/
cubefox on HN
humanrandomness.com
From 1 comment
Many years ago, as a side project to help me apply to tech companies, I made this little site [0] where the premise is trying to pick the number that you think other people won't…
tibbar on HN
Brainfrog randomness game
From 1 comment
Someone shared a small game based on this a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598051 (archived now):…
pcthrowaway on HN