return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoSpotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AItechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square94linkfedilinkarrow-up1338
arrow-up1338external-linkSpotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AItechcrunch.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square94linkfedilink
minus-squareF/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·24 days agoNo, that’s just random being random. In order for something truly random to feel less random to the average person, you have to reduce the repetition.
minus-squarekinsnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·24 days agoand that is what spotify actually does: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·24 days ago<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.
minus-squarekinsnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agothat is exactly what it does the fewer repeats is for when you listen to the same playlist multiple times, not for the sequence itself
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-224 days agoThis is the difference between randomly choosing songs and randomly choosing songs without repetition. Both are random but the later is much better for humans. https://www.statisticshowto.com/sampling-with-replacement-without/ Of course there are other possible methods of choosing. It seems like Spotify is doing some kind of weighting from another comment posted here.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-223 days agoIdk why the donwvotes. This is how these players implement shuffle, because people don’t actually want a random shuffle most times.
minus-squareF/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agoMaybe people disliked my fun fact, maybe I came off the wrong way, maybe people took offense at my typo. It doesn’t matter much. I comment for me! (This comment included)
No, that’s just random being random. In order for something truly random to feel less random to the average person, you have to reduce the repetition.
and that is what spotify actually does: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human
<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.
that is exactly what it does
the fewer repeats is for when you listen to the same playlist multiple times, not for the sequence itself
This is the difference between randomly choosing songs and randomly choosing songs without repetition.
Both are random but the later is much better for humans.
https://www.statisticshowto.com/sampling-with-replacement-without/
Of course there are other possible methods of choosing. It seems like Spotify is doing some kind of weighting from another comment posted here.
Idk why the donwvotes. This is how these players implement shuffle, because people don’t actually want a random shuffle most times.
Maybe people disliked my fun fact, maybe I came off the wrong way, maybe people took offense at my typo. It doesn’t matter much. I comment for me! (This comment included)