Comments on: Randomness http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/2009/03/02/randomness/ Thinking code Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:29:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Santiago Palladino » Status Update http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/2009/03/02/randomness/#comment-1583 Santiago Palladino » Status Update Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:54:32 +0000 http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/?p=27#comment-1583 [...] I’ve promised several posts which never got written, such as some experiments with bizarre random number generators, the architecture of the silverlight DynamicDeepZoom app we hacked toghether with Martin for [...] [...] I’ve promised several posts which never got written, such as some experiments with bizarre random number generators, the architecture of the silverlight DynamicDeepZoom app we hacked toghether with Martin for [...]

]]> By: Palla http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/2009/03/02/randomness/#comment-1582 Palla Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:03:23 +0000 http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/?p=27#comment-1582 Nothing at all. I just went over an <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001008.html" rel="nofollow">old Atwood's post</a> that dealt with shuffling decks, and wanted to go a bit into it. There are a few more things I would like to do regarding this, specially those involving imbalances in the algorithm's decision tree. And as a preview of the next post: create a recursive random integer generator by randomizing the exponents of their prime factorization (yeah, just for fun). As for Knuth's books, I just skimmed through that chapter as I found a reference to it in MSDN, since NET's Random class makes use of it. Perhaps I'll blog about them later, but they are far much more complicated than this. Nothing at all. I just went over an old Atwood’s post that dealt with shuffling decks, and wanted to go a bit into it. There are a few more things I would like to do regarding this, specially those involving imbalances in the algorithm’s decision tree. And as a preview of the next post: create a recursive random integer generator by randomizing the exponents of their prime factorization (yeah, just for fun).

As for Knuth’s books, I just skimmed through that chapter as I found a reference to it in MSDN, since NET’s Random class makes use of it. Perhaps I’ll blog about them later, but they are far much more complicated than this.

]]> By: Facundo http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/2009/03/02/randomness/#comment-1581 Facundo Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:15:54 +0000 http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/?p=27#comment-1581 Hahahah! Thanks Santiago :) Nice post, I really liked it so much better than those Silverlight posts. Now I wonder, how did you come up with the idea of writing this post? Are you doing some research on PRNG? Are you reading Knuth's books? Hahahah! Thanks Santiago :)
Nice post, I really liked it so much better than those Silverlight posts. Now I wonder, how did you come up with the idea of writing this post? Are you doing some research on PRNG? Are you reading Knuth’s books?

]]> By: Palla http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/2009/03/02/randomness/#comment-1580 Palla Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:28:27 +0000 http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/?p=27#comment-1580 Done. Thanks a lot to Juan who fixed the issue! Done. Thanks a lot to Juan who fixed the issue!

]]> By: Palla http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/2009/03/02/randomness/#comment-1579 Palla Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:01:42 +0000 http://www.manas.com.ar/spalladino/?p=27#comment-1579 There seems to be an issue with images. I'll try to get it working ASAP. There seems to be an issue with images. I’ll try to get it working ASAP.

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