Sometimes you need random numbers — and properly random ones, at that. Hackaday Alum [Sean Boyce] whipped up a rig that serves up just that, tasty random bytes delivered fresh over MQTT. [Sean] tells ...

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Researchers have developed a chip-based quantum random number generator that provides high-speed, high-quality operation on a ...

Statistical testing in Python offers a way to make sure your data is meaningful. It only takes a second to validate your data. Having data is only half the battle. How do you know your data actually ...

To simulate chance occurrences, a computer can’t literally toss a coin or roll a die. Instead, it relies on special numerical recipes for generating strings of shuffled digits that pass for random ...

A team of international scientists has developed a laser that can generate 254 trillion random digits per second, more than a hundred times faster than computer-based random number generators (RNG).