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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/see
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Michael Godfrey |
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior. |
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Thu, 8 Mar 2018 11:28:31 -0500 (EST) |
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Follow-up Comment #18, bug #53299 (project octave):
Rik, rightly, said:But I have have been in design situations where the exact
random values in the exact order encountered previously were desired. The only
way to guarantee that, it would seem, would be to keep the "seed" generator
implementation.
This is important for any work that is, for example, published.
It is essential to be able to reproduce computed results.
If necessary, this would mean capturing the outputs of randn
and saving them for future use. This may be the safest method
for now. But, it would be very good to explain what is going
on in the (new) documentation. It is not really necessary to
keep the "seed" generator. Actually, it may be best to remove
it so that people do not get confused and, in any case, lose the
data that they will need in order to reproduce their results.
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., (continued)
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Rik, 2018/03/07
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Mike Miller, 2018/03/07
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Mike Miller, 2018/03/07
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Rik, 2018/03/07
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Dave Goel, 2018/03/07
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Dave Goel, 2018/03/07
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Dave Goel, 2018/03/07
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Dave Goel, 2018/03/07
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Mike Miller, 2018/03/07
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Rik, 2018/03/08
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior.,
Michael Godfrey <=
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Several rand/randn bugs with state/seed behavior., Rik, 2018/03/08
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Document more fully rand state/seed behavior, Rik, 2018/03/10
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53299] Document more fully rand state/seed behavior, Mike Miller, 2018/03/26