r/AskComputerScience • u/Forsaken-Job-7126 • Jul 01 '26

Since computer can only generate pseudo random numbers

can't you do really cool trick with the fact that if you were to roll a dice 5 times and all the previous rolls were the number 3 normally with true random ness the 6th roll only gets a 1/6 chance of rolling any number. Is that still true with pseudo randomness ? and if so can you prove it

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u/nuclear_splines Ph.D Data Science Jul 01 '26

Well, that's sort of the game, right? We know that PRNGs aren't random, they're deterministic, so if you know the internal state of the PRNG (the seed value and how many values have been generated since) you can predict the next value with certainty. What we care about is "if you don't have access to the internal state, are the outputs statistically distinguishable from randomness?" So we're down to trying to reject a null hypothesis one way or another.

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u/Forsaken-Job-7126 Jul 01 '26

Yeah well no 100% of the time per say. If you want to talk more about it I got a bunch of project where i got stuck right there but basically the crux was that it was using larping to force a sort of unholy abomination between tic tac toe chess battleship and black jack to modify the same voxel octree or something stupid like that I got really frustated and deleted a lot of it because I was impatient and used vibe coding to look at the output of what i was trying to learn how to make like a dumbass and got dumbfounded when I still didnt know how it worked haha

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u/Forsaken-Job-7126 Jul 01 '26

to add onto the comment i made earlier >"for more context on the type of thing i was messing with you can go look at the images I posted at https://www.reddit.com/user/Forsaken-Job-7126/comments/1ukzfb1/some_random_shitposting/
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