
Sept. 9, 2014
11:30 a.m.
On 09/09/14 20:08, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
There's also another reason why generator decisions should be part of the RandomState object itself: we may want to change the distribution methods themselves over time (e.g., people have been complaining for a while that we use a suboptimal method for generating gaussian deviates), but changing these creates similar backcompat problems.
Which one should we rather use? Ziggurat? Sturla