From: Chris Pine Date: 2003-04-20T23:35:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Biased weighted random? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mauricio Fern�ndez" I have been thinking about this for a while and even though I understand the subjacent idea, I am not sure this is guaranteed to work at all. ---------------------------- Oh, I gave no guarantees! That's why I ended my post with "Should work much of the time...". What bugs me is that I can't even tell *when* it won't work. ---------------------------- the latter, but it is obvious that this way (weights only) we're giving away several degrees of freedom that could come handy later :) ---------------------------- Absolutely... but then we are getting close to the question of *which* (among several) solutions is the most psychologically satisfying. Earlier in this thread, I showed that their may be more than one transition matrix solution. At least in that case, the "best" solution (I think I called it the most "locally random" solution) was the one which corresponded to using modified weights. I couldn't figure out any other way to satisfy the psychological requirement. In any case, as I mentioned in #69742, I think this is simply the wrong (if more fun) approach. Chris