Xoshiro

Xoshiro is a family of fast, space-efficient and high quality PRNGs. It is considered the state-of-the-art (SOTA) family of non-cryptographic pseudo random number generators (PRNGs). The Rust crate rand_xoshiro (which is part of the popular Rust crate rand) has implementations of Xoshiro256Plus and Xoshiro256PlusPlus . Xoshiro256PlusPlus is a very good …

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

As a statistician I'm very glad to see that statistics is being widely used in many areas. However, time after time I found that it is really dangerous for people who don't really understand statistics to use it. As we all know that there are …