please empty your brain below
In blockbusters didn't one team go North to South? So I suppose it depends how you define the borough at the north east corner

ian | 08.07.17 - 7:24 a.m. | #

I note that quite a few of your done/not done groups have consecutive numbers. Is this down to your card shuffling abilities, where pairs of cards stayed together, or have I missed something in your methodology?

Petras409 | 08.07.17 - 8:30 a.m. | #

It's provided a very interesting series of posts, and they are indeed very varied, as indeed are all your other posts. We never know what we are going to find when we press "refresh".

Petras409 seems to have assumed that the pack of cards you started with was in order. As it may have been, but most shuffles are done on an already shuffled pack. It has been observed that real sequences, produced by a real random process, often seem to the human eye to show some pattern. This could be because we have evolved to look for patterns everywhere, and this search is bound to throw up the occasional false positive.

Malcolm | 08.07.17 - 11:17 a.m. | #

Given that we know all the cards that have been drawn so far, and indeed their order, no doubt there is some suitable statistical test of whether the order is consistent with being truly random or not. If it really matters.

Andrew | 08.07.17 - 12:33 p.m. | #

When you get around to Hornsey, one topic that might inspire you is one of your favourite bugbears - redevelopment.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hornsey-town-hall-to-become-boutique-hotel-amid-public-outcry-a3373906.html
It's causing a lot of controversy locally.

Caz | 08.07.17 - 1:07 p.m. | #

When you get around to Havering, try the Upminster Tap Room. Opens at 4pm weekdays and not Mondays. Handy for the windmill and its refurb.

Running_Correspondent | 08.07.17 - 1:49 p.m. | #

I wish you lived in Melbourne. Though the vicarious travel in London is enjoyable too...

Sally Hirst | 09.07.17 - 9:25 p.m. | #

I note OS have new greenspace maps (online lookee e.g. https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/51.53366,-0.03785,15) for whole of UK...
oh yes, I can see lots of potential re: "I worry that I'll run out of original ideas before I'm finished, but hopefully I'll continue to think up more... and of course it's OK to repeat some if the location permits."

B | 11.07.17 - 2:12 p.m. | #

Just a thought, but isn't there a risk that the randomness of the process means that, on the map at least, you may for a time appear to be a spotty Herbert?

Autolycus | Homepage | 17.07.17 - 5:47 p.m. | #











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