tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post8460581074124420596..comments2024-02-25T08:16:25.546-08:00Comments on Exurban Nation: Buy Intel, yes this is investment adviceRob Dawghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10042154106850545479noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-38496513504679364062013-12-11T10:14:49.582-08:002013-12-11T10:14:49.582-08:00Gosh, you are as old as me. I used to have to do ...Gosh, you are as old as me. I used to have to do the Page number, column number, row number seed thing too. <br /><br />Did you like the double exponential failure in the previous post? Rob Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10042154106850545479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-46634719421430480062013-12-11T07:04:05.108-08:002013-12-11T07:04:05.108-08:00I don't mean to imply that clearing the screen...I don't mean to imply that clearing the screen randomly proves that an algorithmic random number generator is good. None can pass every test of course. For most practical purposes, some just do better than others. Clearing the screen randomly is definitely a practical purpose (when making games anyway).Stagflationary Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04568993350246477976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7514357.post-26095052016075841892013-12-11T06:50:43.096-08:002013-12-11T06:50:43.096-08:00The Market-Ticker blog run by Karl Denninger is in...<i>The Market-Ticker blog run by Karl Denninger is infamous for many things including singlehandedly causing a world wide web shortage of bold text and exclamation points.</i><br /><br />Nice, lol.<br /><br />The random number generator on my relatively ancient graphics calculator cannot fill the screen randomly. I still use that calculator nearly 30 years later though. Shocking. ;)<br /><br />As a former lead engineer at a computer game company, I used the random generator from a Numerical Recipes book (if memory serves) just so I could get consistent results on multiple platforms. I also tested it to verify that it could fill the screen randomly. Shocking. ;)<br /><br />It's a "shocking" two-fer, lol.Stagflationary Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04568993350246477976noreply@blogger.com