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syntacticsalt
6 days ago
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When random is not actually random enough
Curious why you used Box-Muller for normal PRNGs instead of Ziggurat.
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seanhunter
5 days ago
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Ziggurat is badass. It’s also one of those algorithms (like “Metropolis-Hastings”) that has a fantastic name to go along with cool mathematical and practical properties.
https://heliosphan.org/zigguratalgorithm/zigguratalgorithm.h...
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