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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

by jayd16 2y ago

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.

loeg 2y ago
If you're running into contention with multiple threads on a shared PRNG, you're probably at sufficient scale.
- jayd16 2y 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.