Re:I analyzed shuffling in a million games of MtG Arena
by toast0 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:24PM
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> If shuffling, look up a real algo (like Fisher-Yates for instance) and implement that. Or better yet, use a library implementation.
If using a library implementation, you do still need to validate that it's using a proper algorithm. And that it doesn't change to something else during an update. Which probably requires you to understand the algorithm, and looking at wikipedia, it's a handful of lines of code to do it right and know that it doesn't change because it's your code. Maybe not worth the time to inspect and reinspect from a library.
If using a library implementation, you do still need to validate that it's using a proper algorithm. And that it doesn't change to something else during an update. Which probably requires you to understand the algorithm, and looking at wikipedia, it's a handful of lines of code to do it right and know that it doesn't change because it's your code. Maybe not worth the time to inspect and reinspect from a library.