George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

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Months before it mysteriously vaporized into thin air, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency ravaged the National Weather Service, leading to severe staffing shortages. While the ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

According to Andrej Karpathy on Twitter, the Python random.seed() function produces identical random number generator (RNG) streams when seeded with positive and negative integers of the same ...

Abstract: A 10-Gb/s throughput all-digital true-random-number generator (TRNG) is introduced. The TRNG comprises an entropy source based on a StrongARM latch comparator and a post-processing block ...

Adding numbers to your passwords makes them more secure. In fact, most sites and services these days require alphanumeric passwords at the very least. Some people ...

Create unique usernames in seconds for all your online accounts. We always emphasize the importance of strong passwords, but that’s only part of the equation. Your usernames also play a role in ...

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, referred to Kayla Hamilton, a young woman murdered by an MS-13 illegal immigrant, as a "random dead person" during a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee markup ...

Abstract: This letter presents a fully digital true random number generator (TRNG) and noise generator (NG) based on a chaos system. We design the chaos random number generator (CRNG) using the ...

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