The post uses the term "internal state" pretty early on(initialize internal state, etc) and continues to reference it frequently for the algorithmic steps but nowhere is "internal state" defined. Can someone explain to me what this "internal state"?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister#Initializatio...
See:
https://github.com/demerphq/smhasher/blob/master/HashAnatomy...
It actually turns out there are performance benefit by having a larger seed, but not too large. (If you think about it this makes sense consider how many bits you can change with an average combining operation, and with a worse case combining operation.)