diff --git a/6.3-advanced-usage-of-recurrent-neural-networks.ipynb b/6.3-advanced-usage-of-recurrent-neural-networks.ipynb
index 5de9767b00..8088517799 100644
--- a/6.3-advanced-usage-of-recurrent-neural-networks.ipynb
+++ b/6.3-advanced-usage-of-recurrent-neural-networks.ipynb
@@ -285,8 +285,7 @@
     "    i = min_index + lookback\n",
     "    while 1:\n",
     "        if shuffle:\n",
-    "            rows = np.random.randint(\n",
-    "                min_index + lookback, max_index, size=batch_size)\n",
+    "            rows = np.random.choice(range(min_index + lookback, max_index), size=batch_size, replace=False)\n",
     "        else:\n",
     "            if i + batch_size >= max_index:\n",
     "                i = min_index + lookback\n",
@@ -1157,8 +1156,7 @@
     "    i = min_index + lookback\n",
     "    while 1:\n",
     "        if shuffle:\n",
-    "            rows = np.random.randint(\n",
-    "                min_index + lookback, max_index, size=batch_size)\n",
+    "            rows = np.random.choice(range(min_index + lookback, max_index), size=batch_size, replace=False)\n",
     "        else:\n",
     "            if i + batch_size >= max_index:\n",
     "                i = min_index + lookback\n",