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insaider ◴[] No.45155579[source]
Lame clickbait title. TLDR; shuffling algorithm's have improved since the 90s...
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1. defrost ◴[] No.45155609[source]
Really?

  The original Fisher–Yates shuffle was published in 1938 by Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates in their book Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research.

   The modern version of the Fisher–Yates shuffle, designed for computer use, was introduced by Richard Durstenfeld in 1964. It is also known as the Knuth shuffle after Donald Knuth who popularized it in Volume Two of The Art of Computer Programming (1969)
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle

Picking a bad algorithm, as they did here in this example from the 1990's is timeless.

Good shuffle algorithms existed then, and had existed since the 1930s.