I'd never heard of the Aaronson oracle so thanks for the link!
replyI actually built this on a whim after watching that episode of TNG where Data locks everyone out of the Enterprise.
There's another version where a stats professor divides people into two groups. One group flips a coin 50 times and writes on a whiteboard the results. The other comes up with 50 results.
replyThey leave the room and when they come back immediately know which is which. Specifically because of the over-alternation that yours mentioned. A string of HHHHHH is exactly as likely as HTHTHT, but people don't intuit that.
Here it is:
replyI got 64% at 50 steps in, then dropped down to 53%.
replyThe secret? I distracted myself with the website text and kept pressing the buttons quickly without thinking about it.
Must have been looking at some external random source
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