It might also be worth noting that the JDK ships with java.security.SecureRandom a subclass of java.util.Random.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/security/SecureRandom.html R. On 1 Nov 2014, at 10:31, Mars0i <marsh...@logical.net> wrote: > > > On Friday, October 31, 2014 11:19:19 PM UTC-5, Isaac Karth wrote: > Looks like if I want to use libraries like clojure.data.generators or > bigml.sampling I'd need to amend the random generators to replace calls to > the Mersenne Twister function or (def ^:dynamic *rnd* (java.util.Random. > 42)). As long > > Further clarification: I believe that java.util.Random doesn't use a Mersenne > Twister, so clojure.data.generators doesn't by default, either. However, > Sean Luke's MersenneTwister.java subclasses java.util.Random, so you should > be able to use it as the RNG behind clojure.data.generators, if that seemed > like a good idea in other respects. (Luke's other implementation, > MersenneTwisterFast.java, does not subclass java.util.Random. I'm not > certain whether it can be used it with data.generators. At one time I knew, > but I would have to review past investigations to know now.) > > And, while I'm at it, it's worth mentioning that the Incanter statistical > library for Clojure also has some random number generating functions. Some > of these are based on java.util.Random. Don't know if they'd be worth > looking at for your purposes. (I don't know anything about PRF's so no > comments from me about that path.) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
