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Letting Go of Random
Letting Go of Random.
In a recent post I shared some thoughts about art and included a few, somewhat tongue-in-cheek comments about the use of random number generation. Specifically, Random is evil. Random is lazy. Rand…
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They didn’t even go down the path of using noise as a random, but in a fully reproducible way even as access of it changes, while often being faster and often more random as well!
There are a few reasons why I like that even rust did not include random numbers in the standard library, because it’s almost always the wrong thing to use.
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