16 Mar 2001 schoen   » (Master)

General

I went to Crackmonkey Night at Zeitgeist yesterday. There Mr. Bad made me a name tag which says "Demandu al mi pri la lingvo internacia". I was pleased.

I'm going to Target tomorrow to buy a fire extinguisher.

If you don't have a fire extinguisher, you too should go to Target and buy a fire extinguisher. (Or you can get one somewhere else.)

Cards

I'm enjoying my function "unshuffle"; in its present form, it seems to work (trivially identifying which card has been displaced from its order in a casually riffle-shuffled deck) about 60% of the time after three simulated riffles interleaved (heh) with arbitrary cuts. A big question is still how accurate those simulated shuffles are.

I think I can add another 20% to that, though. About half the time when it fails to identify the card, it's not because it's wrong, but just because it finds many possibilities. (There are a lot of possible cases, which were one subject of my long conversation in Israel mentioned in a previous diary entry. One possibility is mistakenly identifying some other card as displaced. Another possibility is an inability to decide which card has been displaced, from among several possibilities. Another possibility is not finding any cards which appear to have been displaced.)

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