multiple CreateRandoms producing identical patterns of numbers?

[Edmund Chong]

Hi,

I am using CreateRandom-->CreateContinuousUniform to generate random numbers. I find that when I initialize multiple of these at the same time, the random numbers they produce, follow the same pattern (see plots--even if the range of the distribution is different).

This behavior goes away if I set a tiny delay to force different randomizers to be initialized at slightly different times, e.g.:

Also seems to go away if I connect all my distributions to a single CreateRandom.

What would be the "correct" way of doing this for a whole bunch of randomizers that I require? a) What if I need randomizers in different parts of the bonsai script and cannot connect them to the same single CreateRandom? b) Or should I try to add some jitter to the time-dependent seed (how?) for each CreateRandom?

Thanks!

-Edmund

[brunocruz]

Answered it on GitHub discussions

https://github.com/bonsai-rx/bonsai/discussions/1117