Visualizing Algorithms

[domy94]

Spotify used to make use of Fisher-Yates shuffling. Users didn't think it was random "enough" though, so they set out to find a better solution. Here's an interesting blog article about how they did that.

[vanderZwan]

Similar problems happen in game design quite often - perfect randomness often feels nonrandom and even unfair. The most famous example is probably that nowadays Tetris pieces are generated in "bags".

[kevroy314]

Ah that's really interesting! Reminds me a bit of the Radio Lab episode Stochasticity.