In the Generator class 4 under the manual_seed function, it says “It is recommended to set a large seed, i.e. a number that has a good balance of 0 and 1 bits. Avoid having many 0 bits in the seed.”
Does anyone have an answer or intuition as to why this is the case? Why does the seed need to be a large number, have a good balance of 0 and 1 bits, and not have many 0 bits?