On 01/07/2013 04:13 PM, Olivier Grisel wrote: > 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. > > Yeah, I figured that was the reason... Thanks for clearing it up for me :)
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