Re: [Numpy-discussion] 1.14.5 bugfix release

2018-06-11 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Matti Picus wrote: > If there is a desire to do a bug-fix release 1.14.5 I would like to try my > hand at releasing it, using doc/RELEASE_WALKTHROUGH.rst.txt. There were a > few issues around compiling 1.14.4 on alpine and NetBSD. > Since 1.15 will probably be

[Numpy-discussion] 1.14.5 bugfix release

2018-06-11 Thread Matti Picus
If there is a desire to do a bug-fix release 1.14.5 I would like to try my hand at releasing it, using doc/RELEASE_WALKTHROUGH.rst.txt. There were a few issues around compiling 1.14.4 on alpine and NetBSD. Since 1.15 will probably be released soon, do we continue to push

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP: Random Number Generator Policy

2018-06-11 Thread josef . pktd
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:26 AM, wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 2:43 AM, Ralf Gommers > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:36 PM, Robert Kern >> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 8:04 PM Ralf Gommers >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Robert Kern >>>

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP: Random Number Generator Policy

2018-06-11 Thread josef . pktd
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 2:43 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:36 PM, Robert Kern > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 8:04 PM Ralf Gommers >> wrote: >> > >> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Robert Kern >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 5:27 PM Ralf

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP: Random Number Generator Policy

2018-06-11 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:53 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:15 PM, Robert Kern wrote: >> >> The intention of this code is to shuffle two same-length sequences in the >> same way. So now if I write my code well to call np.random.seed() once at >> the start of my program,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP: Random Number Generator Policy

2018-06-11 Thread Robert Kern
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:54 PM Ralf Gommers wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:15 PM, Robert Kern wrote: >> Puzzlingly, the root sin of unconditionally and unavoidably reseeding for some of these functions is still there even though I showed how and why to avoid it. This is one reason why

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP: Random Number Generator Policy

2018-06-11 Thread Robert Kern
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:44 PM Ralf Gommers wrote: > Note that scipy.stats distributions allow passing in either a RandomState instance or an integer as seed (which will be used for seeding a new instance, not for np.random.seed) [1]. That seems like a fine design pattern as well, and passing