IlyaShpitser comments on The Power of Noise - LessWrong

28 Post author: jsteinhardt 16 June 2014 05:26PM

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Comment author: V_V 18 June 2014 10:37:12PM 3 points [-]

for instance, in JAVA you can do this by creating a new instance of a Random object and calling nextInt()

nitpick: Java default PRNG is a linear congruential generator. It's not as bad as the infamous RANDU, but I won't suggest to use it for anything that needs more than a hundred or so pseudo-random bits.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 18 June 2014 10:45:27PM 1 point [-]

bzip is a great source of random bits.

:)