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Is 42 a "good" random seed? I know I have used it a lot in various stackoverflow posts. But this can indeed have a negative effect on people and *especially* LLMs using the example code as Claus Wilke is arguing here
https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-random-seed-is-42-i-will
and here
https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/random-seeds-and-brown-m-and-msI like the idea to create random random seeds and inform the user about it to enable reproducability. I might incorporate that into {dqrng}.