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by brap 497 days ago
Is this truly live or did they batch random numbers ahead of time?
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Technical Details section of help explains "we buffer batches of coin flips in advance to ensure a responsive experience. Your coin flips are always drawn directly from a quantum circuit, though no necessarily in real-time."
Am I wrong, or would that mean this “quantum flip” can be biased by race conditions, round robin, CDNs, things like that?
In reality, it's a room full of interns flipping quarters and averaging their results in "real time"
yea its not truly random. not sure how predictable the batching or caching is