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- How do computers generate random numbers? https://betterprogramming.pub/generating-random-numbers-is-a-lot-harder-than-you-think-b121c3e75d08 78 comments
- How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers? https://digitalbunker.dev/2020/09/08/how-do-computers-generate-random-numbers/ 50 comments
- How to Turn a Quantum Computer into the Ultimate Randomness Generator https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-turn-a-quantum-computer-into-the-ultimate-randomness-generator-20190619/ 26 comments
- Can you fool a computer at generating random numbers? http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/january12013/index.html 9 comments
- Computer Random vs. True Random : See the difference in how random numbers are generated. http://www.boallen.com/random-numbers.html 31 comments
- Quantum Computer Generates Random Number in Scientific First https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-computer-generates-truly-random-number-in-scientific-first 0 comments
- 3 Awesome Ways Computers Generate Randomness https://elijahpotter.medium.com/3-awesome-ways-computers-generate-randomness-8fd260c92953 11 comments programming
- Computer generated Random art with visitors' input used as random seed http://www.random-art.org/ 4 comments programming
- Why is True Random Number generation still not a standard computer feature? http://www.moyogo.com/blog/2005/09/random-thoughts.html 142 comments programming
- Computers are Lousy Random Number Generators http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000728.html 6 comments programming
- Quantum Computer Generates Truly Random Number in Scientific First https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-computer-generates-truly-random-number-in-scientific-first 108 comments programming
- Quantum Computer Generates Truly Random Number in Scientific First https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-computer-generates-truly-random-number-in-scientific-first 460 comments science
- My brother made a computer program that writes random word generated sonnets that are eerily well written. http://ryanheuser.org/ 198 comments programming
- Test your ability to generate a truly random sequence of 0's and 1's. Can you make one that rivals a computer generated one? http://www.khanacademy.org/labs/explorations/frequency-stability 48 comments compsci
- What is happening when a computer generates a random number? Are all RNG programs created equally? What makes an RNG better or worse? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/781ujb/what_is_happening_when_a_computer_generates_a/ 475 comments askscience
- Researchers use tiny magnetic swirls to generate true random numbers. Skyrmions, tiny magnetic anomalies that arise in two-dimensional materials, can be used to generate true random numbers useful in cryptography and probabilistic computing. https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-02-07/skyrmions 7 comments science
- Quasiparticles used to generate millions of truly random numbers a second. Skyrmions, tiny magnetic anomalies that arise in two-dimensional materials, can be used to generate true random numbers useful in cryptography and probabilistic computing. https://newatlas.com/physics/skyrmions-truly-random-number-generator/ 8 comments science
- Is it possible to perform random number generation without the aid of any external prop like a coin, mobile phone, watch, computer, etc ? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5h59oc/is_it_possible_to_perform_random_number/ 10 comments askscience
- Professor revolutionises computers with the most random function ever: Computers need to be able to generate random results in order to work. A Danish researcher has now created the most random function in the world. http://sciencenordic.com/professor-revolutionises-computers-most-random-function-ever 23 comments science
- Random numbers are critical to encryption algorithms, but they're nigh-on impossible for computers to generate. Now, Swedish researchers say they've created a new, super-secure quantum random number generator using cheap perovskite LEDs. https://newatlas.com/quantum-computing/perovskite-led-quantum-random-number/ 85 comments science
- Researchers have built the fastest random-number generator ever made at a rate of 250 trillion bits per second, using a simple laser. It exploits fluctuations in the intensity of light to generate randomness and could lead to devices that are small enough to fit on a single computer chip. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6532/948 6 comments science
- "...a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence. " http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ 12 comments philosophy