army1987 comments on The Weighted Majority Algorithm - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 December 2013 11:55:09AM 0 points [-]

Also, sometimes you need to run several tests with the same random sequence for debugging purposes, which with true random numbers would require you to store all of them, whereas with pseudo-random numbers you just need to use the same seed.