Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...

Understanding randomness is crucial in many fields. From computer science and engineering to cryptography and weather ...

Python is one of the most approachable languages to learn, thanks to its object-oriented-first approach and its minimal ...

Selecting a random sample from a set is simple. But what about selecting a fair random sample from a set of unknown or indeterminate size? That’s where reservoir sampling comes in, and [Sam ...

Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and gravity. Similar variables dictate rolling a pair of dice or shuffling a deck ...

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 ...

Terry Gerton Well, that’s a really helpful framework to then talk about, more specifically, how you generate random numbers, because you just implied that some trusted people can generate random ...

A new network paradigm can generate meaningfully random numbers—and fast. In network encryption, randomness has huge value because it’s not “solvable” by hackers.

But the random number generator they built was, they reasoned, still useful. So Haahr made it public at random.org, where it has been churning out random numbers ever since. It gets a lot of visitors.

Step 1: Introduce the user to the rules. Step 2: Generate a random number to be guessed. Step 3: Initialize the attempt counter and a list to hold already guessed numbers. Step 4: Let the user guess ...