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Misleading documentation on random number generators #508

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heplesser opened this issue Oct 6, 2016 · 3 comments · Fixed by #1549
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Misleading documentation on random number generators #508

heplesser opened this issue Oct 6, 2016 · 3 comments · Fixed by #1549
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I: No breaking change Previously written code will work as before, no one should note anything changing (aside the fix) S: Normal Handle this with default priority T: Bug Wrong statements in the code or documentation ZC: Documentation DO NOT USE THIS LABEL ZP: Pending DO NOT USE THIS LABEL
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On http://www.nest-simulator.org/random_numbers/, most relevant information in seeding RNGs is given under the "random numbers in parallel simulations" heading. This is misleading, since users need to seed the grng and the thread-0 rng in serial simulations.
@heplesser heplesser added ZC: Documentation DO NOT USE THIS LABEL I: No breaking change Previously written code will work as before, no one should note anything changing (aside the fix) ZP: Pending DO NOT USE THIS LABEL S: Normal Handle this with default priority T: Bug Wrong statements in the code or documentation labels Nov 17, 2016
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Actually, I was just looking something up in the documentation on random numbers and realized that it is outdated. It still uses the old function names for creation of connections, such as RandomDivergentConnect, so this should be updated as well.

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@heplesser, could you give some updates on the status of this?

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Fixing the documentation guide on random numbers as part of #1549 is very high on my agenda, hope to get to it later this week.

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Modernize random number generator setup hakonsbm/nest-simulator
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