The post was *a* way to generate a truncated normal distribution, not necessarily the best way, or strictly the most efficient. But I’ve found it sufficient for my purposes, and more importantly for me, approachable to read and understand. A different algorithm, if it takes someone ten or fifteen minutes to wrap their head around, needs to be *much* more efficient if its only being used once in a blue moon.

But yes, there’s soom to optimize.