Comments on: Making significant strides towards documenting ScUtil

By: John Haugeland

John Haugeland — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:15:39 +0000

For my readers’ sakes, Mr. Bhalero and I have been talking on the Library Twitter, and his code has been adopted. It’s taking a while because it’s the first time I’ve accepted a whole module, and Kaustubh and I had to come to an understanding on formatting and licensing concerns, and similar.

But the code’s going in.

By: Kaustubh Bhalerao

Kaustubh Bhalerao — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:15:25 +0000

I was thinking of transliterating this code into Erlang.. I can't say I know too much about good quality RNGs. However, random.uniform uses Wichman and Hill, which is supposed to be pretty good too.

By: John Haugeland

John Haugeland — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:05:14 +0000

I haven’t really got the urge to build new random distributions – they’re useful, but they’re not the sort of thing I already know how to do well, and PRNGs require serious clue to get at any sort of quality.

If you’d like to donate them to my library, hell yes I’ll accept them, and I’ll of course credit you for the donations.

By: Kaustubh Bhalerao

Kaustubh Bhalerao — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:36:16 +0000

Hey – this is a nice collection of functions I missed in the erlang stdlibs. I’m going to write a set of simulation applications and was hoping that you had implemented some random number generators for various distributions, but I don’t see them in sc.random. Do you know of any? Or should I just jump in and write my own? Would you be interested in including them as an addition to your library?

By: John Haugeland

John Haugeland — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:00:14 +0000

Really? That’s great to know. I didn’t know anyone was using ScUtil but me and a few people from IRC.

By: jwecker

jwecker — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:33:13 +0000

Already use a bunch of these. Thanks for the lib and the documentation.