Andrew Clifton - Don't generate, hash! (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love SplitMix64)

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This talk is from the 2020 virtual Roguelike Celebration:
https://roguelike.club/event2020.html

Andrew is a professor of computer science at a southern California community college. He's been working on a roguelike called "A World Like This One" for a few years; you haven't heard of it.

In this talk he proposes that often when we reach for a traditional PRNG we should actually be using a hash function, and he offers up the SplitMix64 PRNG as something that can do both.

Andrew's notes: http://twicetwo.com/files/generate-hash-notes.md



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