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		aquarin on Nov 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister ... PRNG are used for MC in both finance and physics.

pvitz on Nov 26, 2020 [–]

I agree, but I wrote "good engines". If one can choose between convergence with 1/N over 1/sqrt(N), the choice shouldn't be difficult especially in real-time systems.

jacobolus on Nov 27, 2020 | [–]

Try http://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-...

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