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Brian_K_White
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Anything that isn't repeatable is by definition unreliable.
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encomiast
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Random number generators notwithstanding.
taneq
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They’re unreliably unreliable.
wombatpm
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Same seed gives the same sequence. Use that to debug Monte Carlo simulations all the time.
Brian_K_White
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The definition of "not repeatable" or unreliable in an rng is if it was random sometimes, and predictable other times.
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