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		DavidPiper 72 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Oper... 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.

appointment 72 days ago | [–]

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

rrr_oh_man 72 days ago | [–]

> 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!

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