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PRNG + LCG chapters #1016

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@leios leios commented Sep 6, 2023

This is a draft PR for the next set of chapters. It will include the following:

  • An intro to RNG
    • a discussion of where RNG is used in different fields
    • quick histogram check to see how random your RNG is
  • Diehard tests
    • Birthday spacings
    • Overlapping permutations
    • Ranks of matrices
    • Monkey tests
    • Count the 1s
    • Parking lot test
    • Minimum distance test
    • Random spheres test
    • The squeeze test
    • Overlapping sums test
    • Runs test
    • The craps test
  • Linear Congruential Generators
    • Explain why they might be used in CG applications / GPU kernels (due to other RNG methods being cumbersome)

Might be biting off a bit too much, but I've been wanting to do diehard tests forever now and it'll be fun creating the testsuite.

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Amaras commented Sep 8, 2023

Idea: add Linear-Feedback Shift Registers as a (cheap) hardware PRNG, although it can be quite weak as a PRNG

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