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0 pointsjayd162y ago0 comments

Result distribution (like averaging to zero) only happens at scale. Even if you use a different seed every time you might not see the proper distribution when looking across different generator instances.

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loeg2y ago· 1 in thread

If you're running into contention with multiple threads on a shared PRNG, you're probably at sufficient scale.

jayd16OP2y ago

Sure. Just saying that, for example, if you spawn threads and use the thread ID as the seed but pull a single value per thread, that's not sufficient.

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