Re: [Bug-gnubg] random dice generator? hahahaaa

[Philippe Michel]

A domain where not-nearly-random dice may be useful could be rollouts and 
even more so repeated interactive playout of a position.

Currently, rollouts ensure that each sucessive set of 36 trials uses every 
possible diceroll once and the 36 rolls' ordering is random. For playing 
out positions, there is nothing special available.

The involved math is too hard for me, but wouldn't using low discrepancy 
sequences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence) instead 
of a random order decrease the variance for rollouts with any number of 
trials (possibly only slightly, with variance reduction already helping a 
lot). When playing out a position, it could be more effective to sample 
the set of possible outcomes this way rather than purely randomly.

Do you have some insights on the subject ?

Do you think it would be indeed useful for rollouts and not too visibly 
contrived for a possible interactive usage ?

Then how does one generate such sequences ? Would the methods that are 
used on a continuous interval work for a discrete set of 36 values, not 
particularly homogeneously spread ? How to generate varied sequences, not 
always something identical like "moderately good, very bad, average, etc...) ?