On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 11:39 AM Sebastian Berg <sebast...@sipsolutions.net>
wrote:

> I am very happy with this new API. Right now we decided to opt for a
> SeedSequence object. In the future we may opt to adding a `.spawn()`
> method directly to the Generator or BitGenerator. This is mostly a
> heads up, since it is a new set of API, which I believe has never been
> mentioned/proposed on the mailing list.
>

We talked about the general desire for this kind of API a few years ago:

https://www.mail-archive.com/numpy-discussion@scipy.org/msg50383.html

The strength of the algorithm provided by Prof O'Neill is what enables this
kind of API, which is a sea change in how one can safely build reproducible
parallel stochastic programs and libraries.

-- 
Robert Kern
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