alt Hacker NewsIncluding the random walk from where the snow golem happened to get put and the one open portal in the world? That doesn't seem likely at all to me.
Including the random walk from where the snow golem happened to get put and the one open portal in the world? That doesn't seem likely at all to me.
That's pretty much what they describe in the video. The random walk itself is not simulated tick-by-tick, but turned into an faster-to-compute model of the longer term statistical behavior of the walk. It's not quite a case of 'it would happen in the real engine at exactly these points with this seed', but more a statistical argument that it would be expected to happen on that kind of timescale.