AI and cognitive psychology rant (getting more and more OT - tell me if I should shut up)

[Paul Rubin]

"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> writes:
> > But I can for example observe the way people play
> > bridge, and their rationalizations about why they've done X or Y;
> 
> I recall reading that computer generated shuffles, based on PRNGs,
> gave different hand distributions than expected by expert bridge players.

I don't know about bridge, but I've played enough Freecell to be
convinced that the PRNG it uses is no good and it gets ridiculously
non-random distributions.