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DavidPiperyesterday at 6:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

I quite like seed but for a different reason - if you squint a bit, it looks like a natural evolution of a random number seed.

My complaint against seed would be that it still harkens back to a biological process that could be easily and creatively conflated when it's convenient.


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appointmentyesterday at 11:42 AM

Pretty sure the term "seed" for a pRNG initial value is already derived from the same crystal seed analogy...

rrr_oh_manyesterday at 7:29 AM

> I quite like seed but for a different reason - if you squint a bit, it looks like a natural evolution of a random number seed.

Nice!