> Create RandomState objects and use those. This is a best practice > whether you are using multiprocessing or not. The module-level > functions really should only be used for noodling around in IPython.
Are we guaranteed that two RandomStates will produce two independent sequences? If not, RandomState cannot be used for this particular purpose. Cf. what the creators of MT wrote about dynamically creating MT generators at http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/DC/dc.html Sturla Molden _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion