Also, adding a dependency on commons math doesn't necessarily give us
forward motion on the dependency front.

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Sean Owen (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Sean Owen commented on MAHOUT-687:
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> OK, that is still not what the patch does though.
> I think there are two good ideas in the mix here that can be committed
> without controversy. First, work around setSeed() behavior by instantiating
> a new RNG when called. Second, don't use a shared RNG in the sampling
> Iterator. I suggest this is the substance of what to commit in this thread.
>
> > Random generator objects- slight refactor
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> >                 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, MAHOUT-687.patch
> >
> >
> > Problems:
> > * The uncommons RepeatableRNG classes are the basis of RandomUtils.
> > ** These classes cheerfully ignore setSeed.
> > * Some people in the project want to move off Uncommons anyway.
> > This patch uses the org.apache.commons.math.random.RandomGenerator
> classes instead of org.apache.uncommons.maths.RepeatableRNG classes.
> > .
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