Investigate if we should use mt19937_64 for 64 bit numbers

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C++ tensors with broadcasting and lazy computing

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Open wolfv opened 6 years ago

wolfv commented 6 years ago

There exists a slower mersenne twister that computes 64 bits of random values instead of 32.

Maybe we should document this fact for users that are concerned with higher quality random numbers?

wolfv commented 6 years ago