[HN Gopher] The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequen...
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       The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences (2018)
        
       Author : lnyan
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-04-10 11:36 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | curiousgal wrote:
       | These remind me of an interview where the interviewer asked if I
       | was familiar with pseudo-random generators, I told him well there
       | isn't technically a way to generate a truly random numbers so all
       | of the algorithms people use are PRNGs (MT, PCG, etc.). He seemed
       | confused and disregarded my answer and then went on to describe
       | how the Sobol sequence worked. That's when it clicked for me so I
       | went "Ah you mean _Quasi_ -random!" And he was like "Quasi,
       | Pseudo it's the same, these sequences are not truly random"...
        
         | actually_a_dog wrote:
         | Oh boy. Were you offered, and did you take the job? It's always
         | so disheartening to see such ignorance coming from an
         | interviewer, isn't it?
        
           | gnulinux wrote:
           | Ok let's be charitable here. Being confused by terminology is
           | definitely not unheard-of. I don't know how well established
           | these terms are, but it is true that in some fields "quasi"
           | used in some way similar to "pseudo" or "lesser". If the
           | interviewer previously studied these as PRNG instead of QRNG,
           | I doubt that means they're "ignorant".
        
             | curiousgal wrote:
             | Obviously these things happen but his demeanor was a major
             | red flag.
        
           | curiousgal wrote:
           | I was given an offer but I passed on. The entire experience
           | was awful. The other interviewers did not bother to turn
           | their webcams on (nor did they even bother to give an excuse
           | for not doing so). The whole thing felt like an
           | interrogation.
        
       | krnsll wrote:
       | Previous discussion from 2018:
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17873284
        
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