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Remembering an old CompSci concept*... generators vs sieves. For example, we don't have good prime number generators... but we have a fairly good sieve that filters numbers quickly for likely being a prime. otoh we do have fairly good pseudo-random number generators (digital computers are designed to not have noise so it takes a little bit of work to introduce noise). Me thinks some things that are really fundamentally sieves are currently being passed off as generators. (* And that's stolen from math, before CompSci (there used to be a lot more math ideas taught in CompSci).)