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A comment on Hyrum's Law. Parent comment

Re:Hyrum's Law by charcircuit on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:35AM (#33285890)
He never specified he needed uniform randomness.
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Re:Hyrum's Law by amelius on Friday October 21, 2022 @06:32AM (#33286529)
Generally when using a random number generator, you will want to know the distribution and behavior through time.

Without knowing anything, the RNG could generate all 0s one day, and all 1s the next day, which most people would consider a very bad and worthless RNG.

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Re:Hyrum's Law by charcircuit on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:37AM (#33288418)
That is why rng whitening algorithms exist.
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Re:Hyrum's Law by amelius on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:28AM (#33289046)
They will not work if the distribution is time-variant.
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