This is an interesting paper, but it has been posted to hacker news in 2020 already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25166095 https://news.ycombinator.com/

This is an interesting paper, but it has been posted to hacker news in 2020 already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25166095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25166095 I had written about it around that time on my blog, for the curious: https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/war-of-the-random-number-generators/ https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/war-of-the-random-numbe... and the sequel https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/more-on-random-number-generators/ https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/more-on-random-number-g... A neat remark from the above: Monte-Carlo simulations run at the Los Alamos National Laboratory relied on a relatively simple linear congruential generator (LCG) producing 24- or 48-bits integers for at least 40 years