Stop using 42 as a random seed

Mar 14

This is my 42nd post on Substack, so an auspicious moment to raise an issue that’s been niggling at the back of my mind — people using the value 42 to seed the random number generator when they do machine learning.

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Nick Taylor

Mar 14

Very fortuitous.

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Ahhh ... you do like Python really. Is it coincidence that ASCII character 42 is * the wildcard and the answer to all things...?!

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Stop using 42 as a random seed