{"id":6836,"date":"2022-07-09T14:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2022-07-09T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:16:40","slug":"random-number-generators-vs-noise-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6836","title":{"rendered":"Random number generators vs noise generators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Squirrel Eiserloh compares random number generators and noise functions. He does a great job summarizing the pros\/cons of each and then shows how the noise functions can replace random number generators and then provide many other benefits (unordered access, better reseeding, record\/playback, network loss tolerance, lock-free parallelization, etc) while often being smaller and faster than traditional random number generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LWFzPP8ZbdU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squirrel Eiserloh compares random number generators and noise functions. He does a great job summarizing the pros\/cons of each and then shows how the noise functions can replace random number generators and then provide many other benefits (unordered access, better reseeding, record\/playback, network loss tolerance, lock-free parallelization, etc) while often being smaller and faster than traditional random number generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technicalproblemsolutions","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1Mg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}