Using python multiprocessing with different random seed for each process

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Just thought I would add an actual answer to make it clear for others.

Quoting the answer from aix in this question:

What happens is that on Unix every worker process inherits the same
state of the random number generator from the parent process. This is
why they generate identical pseudo-random sequences.

Use the random.seed() method (or the scipy/numpy equivalent) to set the seed properly. See also this numpy thread.

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