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Ted Dunning commented on MAHOUT-687:
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Why should the default creator of a random number generator include a system
call to the random seed operating system device driver?
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Because it provides good seeds from real physical processes?
> Random generator objects- slight refactor
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> Key: MAHOUT-687
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-687
> Project: Mahout
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Lance Norskog
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: MAHOUT-687.patch
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> Problems:
> * Uncommons MersenneTwisterRNG, the default RandomUtils.getRandom(), ignores
> setSeed without throwing an error.
> * The project wants to move off Uncommons anyway.
> This patch uses the org.apache.commons.math.random.RandomGenerator classes
> instead of org.apache.uncommons.maths.RepeatableRNG classes.
> Testcases: All math test cases pass except for
> org.apache.mahout.math.stats.LogLikelihoodTest.
> Other package tests fail that are mostly about testing random-oriented
> classes; not a surprise.
> Almost all tests that use random numbers in algorithms still pass; this is a
> good sign of their stability.
> .
> Still, a lot of tests have to be fiddled to make this commit.
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