• bulwark@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Great write up, now I have to google what a Meraenne Twister is. To use audio input noise as a random number gen I would just hook it up to a pressision digital db meter but I’m guessing the software implementation is a little more practical.

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      1 month ago

      A software solution usually can create “random” faster, with the drawback that its not actual random

      The Mersenne Twister was a famous pseudo random number generator when I wrote my diploma thesis in 2009. Today, afaik, PCG (Permuted Congrentual Generator) are better.