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		mbq on Dec 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Make your program slower with threads Still no good; you can get spurious correlations between rng outputs on each core. You need something like L'Ecuyer RNG streams.

ScottBurson on Dec 7, 2014 [–]

Well, using /dev/urandom is a vast improvement over doing nothing.

But your point is well taken. People doing serious Monte Carlo simulations should probably use a more sophisticated RNG.

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