On 01/06/2013 09:51 PM, Olivier Grisel wrote: > 2013/1/6 Andreas Mueller <[email protected]>: >> Hi everybody. >> I'm a bit confused by our usage of random numbers in the tests. >> Usually all tests have fixed random seeds. But then there is a global >> random state that is set >> explicitly and printed for reproducability. >> What is that state for? > It's a way to reproduce failures caused by missing random_state. This is the only reason? Ok, then. But why not just set it to one fixed value there?
>> One of the open issues was caused by the test using this global state - >> actually >> the test even said it was using the global random state! > I would rather avoid using using the shared random number generator to > avoid having tests that depends on the running order. > Ok, I'll fix the seed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
