When good pseudorandom numbers go bad
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When good pseudorandom numbers go bad – Notes from a data witch
Multivariate normal sampling can be wildly irreproducible if you’re not careful. Sometimes more than others. There are eldritch horrors, ill-conditioned matrices, and floating point nightmares in here. Teaching sand to do linear algebra was a mistake