A team of researchers have published a paper in which they show that a quantum computer can produce certified randomness, which has numerous application areas such as in cryptography. According to the ...

"No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word," wrote Nassim Nicholas TalebIs the business world inherently chaotic, or is ...

If you want to pick a winner in a drawing, take samples for statistical purposes, or any of hundreds of other technical tasks you are going to need a source of random numbers. If you have ever looked ...

How can you generate random bits? Some people think it’s not easy, others will tell you that it’s pretty damn hard, and then there are those who wonder if it is possible at all. Of course, it is easy ...

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. (A.A. Milne) If you were a rabbit, fleeing from a fox, would you be more successful if following a ...

Ask a computer to pick a random number and you’ll probably get a response that isn’t completely unpredictable. Because they are deterministic automatons, computers struggle to generate numbers that ...

If your name gets picked for jury duty, it’s because a computer used a random number generator to select it. The same goes for tax audits or when you opt for a quick pick lottery ticket. But how can ...

In the last few weeks, we’ve introduced P5.js and used it to generate a textured paper background and a relatively underwhelming (but fun!) representation of watercolor. In this post, we’ll discuss ...

“To swim against the current of human intuition is a difficult task. ... the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can, therefore, have a hard time accepting the ...