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The unreasonable effectiveness of quasirandom sequences (2018) (extremelearning.com.au)
23 points by fanf2 on Oct 18, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17873284 for a previous discussion on this article (2018)


I strongly second this, very informative and interesting discussion there.


Off topic, can someone shed any light on the "The <adjective> <quality> of <noun>" style headlines we see everywhere now? Every second headline in The Atlantic is structured this way and I see it all the time in similarly aligned publications.


Not really shedding much light but I believe this was the origin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectivene....



The page makes a good case that the method is more regular than other approaches, but then doesn't compare its performance to naive regular approaches like lattices or distributions derived from standard aperiodic tilings.

> need to distribute points on the surface of a 3-sphere as evenly as possible

The examples there are of a 2-sphere.


preferably OP or moderators should add (2018) to the end of this title.




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