Re: Robustness Check

[donalson]

>
>
>  You can generally just seed the RNG
> for each run from the current time, or something similar (make sure that
> each seed that you generate this way is different and in the allowed range
> of seeds for your generator!).
>
> If you chose to seed from something like current time, you should make sure to
> save the seeds somewhere.  This is key for both analysis and debugging.  If
> you make 100 runs and 2 or 3 seem quite different from the others or you see
> some sort of other anomaly, it is key to be able to repeat those runs for
> further testing (translates to finding the bug).  Same is true when trying to
> understand the mechanisims behind the results you get.

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