Doesn't work from my smartphone. Sounds like a fun challenge though, would like to try.
Seems like it's written using ES6 syntax, which many browsers can't handle yet. Safari stopped at a lambda ( () => ) here.
Predicting one of 2 characters you will randomly press
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Re: Predicting one of 2 characters you will randomly press
#22Is there, for a given k, an easy to remember sequence (easy to remember algorithm with little state) that has all the k-grams with the same frequency? For k=1: 01 repeating For k=2: 0011 repeating For k=3: 00010111 repeating
probably relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence
edit: dangit, beaten to the punch.
Re: Predicting one of 2 characters you will randomly press
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm on OS X with Firefox 47.0.1 and it works fine. It doesn't display anything until the 6th keypress.
Doesn't work in Safari for me, but it does work in Chrome (after pressing keys six times).
Yeah, it uses this style function definition (ES6?) in a few places:
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => {
Re: Predicting one of 2 characters you will randomly press
#24I did something like this a long time ago in a little competition for beating others' rock paper scissors programs, except I used the other players' moves relative to my own (e.g. my program could catch on to the other player choosing the move that would beat my last move) as well as their current pattern of winning or losing.
Re: Predicting one of 2 characters you will randomly press
#25For me it is pretty consistently 50% +/- 5 even after a minute. It doesn't seem to work well if you repeat the same key a lot (i.e don't flip to often).
I got 52% after a good lot of keypresses (not sure exactly how many). I chose to not look at the screen at all during that time - I think that probably helps.
Anything There is an inherent 50% probability of each character occurring next. i.e if you were to guess randomly, you would be right 50% of the time given enough trials.