[pymvpa] Tip of the day: MVPA_SEED

[Per B. Sederberg]

What does this MVPA_SEED mean?
P

At Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:22:33 +0200,
Michael Hanke wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:35:30PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > If you like to have full unittests battery be done in a fast manner --
> > run with magic seed 14, e.g.
> > 
> > MVPA_SEED=14 make unittest
> > 
> > if you like to run for coffee and come back to enjoy the final message
> > being printed on the screen run with seed 4. With 14 it takes 45sec on
> > my box (without -O) and with 4, it takes nearly 20 times longer --
> > 739.933s
> > 
> > What is your favorite seed? :-)
> ;-)
> 
> Try 1978 to see one of the performance unit tests fail -- it is too
> random ;-)
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> 
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