2013/1/6 Andreas Mueller <[email protected]>: > 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?
Well fixing it here would just hide problems longer till the insertion or removal of new tests using the shared global rng. Better fail early in that case. -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
