Peter Occil

Closing to start a new topic with a better focus.

> There are a few workloads that fundamentally depend on correctly-rounded samples of distributions--e.g. if the noise added in differential privacy is not a correctly-rounded sample of the appropriate distribution,...

Some time ago, the Encoding Standard started mapping the two bytes "0xA3 0xA0" to "U+3000" rather than U+E5E5 "to be compatible with deployed content". Do the benefits of this mapping...

My belief is that the "core" random number method should be one that generates integers (say, a uniform random integer in the interval `[0, n)`), rather than a method that...

Can you explain how the "random seed" is causing variance and how this is a problem? Does it cause variance in the inputs to be fuzzed? I should note that...

The methods that would render `CBORObject` mutable could be deprecated, and there could be builder classes (such as `CBORArrayBuilder` and `CBORMapBuilder`) that could serve as mutable versions of CBOR arrays...

This issue has seen no activity, and it appears to be resolved, so closing.

The Java class [`com.sun.media.sound.EmergencySoundbank`](https://github.com/apple/openjdk/blob/xcodejdk14-release/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/media/sound/EmergencySoundbank.java) uses an interesting technique to generate MIDI instruments (review the file's license, though). Apparently, the technique of `EmergencySoundbank` is to render the instrument's tone in the...

> The Java class [`com.sun.media.sound.EmergencySoundbank`](https://github.com/apple/openjdk/blob/xcodejdk14-release/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/media/sound/EmergencySoundbank.java) uses an interesting technique to generate MIDI instruments (review the file's license, though). Apparently, the technique of `EmergencySoundbank` is to render the instrument's tone in...

There are [many alternatives](https://github.com/peteroupc/peteroupc.github.io/blob/master/random.md#high-quality-prng-examples) to the Mersenne Twister, which is a generator with a number of disadvantages explained in further detail in "[It Is High Time We Let Go of...