Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand

Post by aidenn0 » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 4:23 AM UTC

endominus wrote: post #6

From the Github description, a quote: "In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next. It’s actually very easy to write a program that will make the right prediction about 70% of the time. Most people don’t really know how to type randomly. They’ll have too many alternation…

Post by omoikane » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 4:27 AM UTC

    ddddd dfddd dffdd dfdfd ddfff ddfdd fdffd dffdf ddfff fdfdf
    dfffd ffdff fffff dffff ffddf fffdf dfffd ffdff ffffd ddfff

    my %table = ();
    my $s = "fffff";
    
    for(my $i = 0; $i  $table{$s}{"d"} ? "d" : "f";
          $table{$s}{$output}++;
       }
       else
       {
          # No prediction yet.  Original source defaults to "f", so we will
          # output "d".
          $output = "d";
          $table{$s}{"d"} = 1;
          $table{$s}{"f"} = 0;
       }
       print $output;
       $s = substr($s, 1) . $output;
    }
    print "\n";

Post by xwdv » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 4:34 AM UTC

Post by nerdponx » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 4:49 AM UTC

kerkeslager wrote: post #16

I feel like there's an "aesthetic" to randomness, which I see in examples of Japanese wabi sabi. I don't know how to describe what that looks like in keypresses exactly, but if I imitate that, I'm able to keep the rolling average at I question the relation to free will however--will seems more related to preference than randomness to me, and a better example of that would be something like "I prefer the f key". Confl…

Post by raincole » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 4:54 AM UTC