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Box muller chapter #974

Closed leios closed 2 years ago

leios commented 2 years ago

Amaras said there were now only 2 pages of PRs. I couldn't have that, so here's a draft for the upcoming chapter.

There are a lot of images and such missing, but the text is mostly there. I think I will be just slammin' through the images / videos tomorrow on stream.

My main concern here is that the benchmarking section is actually roughly the same length as the rest of the chapter and I wonder if I should siphon it out into it's own subchapter or not. In general, I could imagine that being a common thing to do with future chapters:

  1. The base algorithm
  2. Ok, but how do we make this efficient?
leios commented 2 years ago

So the last thing we need here is some sort of test to prove the 2D code does actually provide a Gaussian