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Laurent Vanbever . @laurent,

We humans are absolutely *terrible* at generating randomness. Case in point. You're asked to press the "f" & "d" keys randomly. After a few presses, a simple probabilistic model is likely to be able to predict your next key with a 60+% accuracy!

Try it here: people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle/

Code: github.com/elsehow/aaronson-oracle

I thought I was better, I'm not.

(This BTW is known as Aaronson Oracle).

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