Re: [Numpy-discussion] random.RandomState and deepcopy

2015-03-13 Thread Robert Kern
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Kern wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: It is common that to guarantee good statistical independence between various random generators, a singleton instance of an

Re: [Numpy-discussion] random.RandomState and deepcopy

2015-03-13 Thread Robert Kern
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: It is common that to guarantee good statistical independence between various random generators, a singleton instance of an RNG is shared between them. So I typically have various random generator objects, which (sometimes

Re: [Numpy-discussion] random.RandomState and deepcopy

2015-03-13 Thread Neal Becker
Robert Kern wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: It is common that to guarantee good statistical independence between various random generators, a singleton instance of an RNG is shared between them. So I typically have various random generator