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

The U.S. healthcare system generates massive volumes of data spanning patients, treatments, and billing but real datasets are often inaccessible due to privacy laws like HIPAA. This project was ...

Powerball is giving you $1 billion reasons to think about buying a ticket. We all know winning the lottery is a long shot at 1 in 292.2 million odds of taking home the jackpot. But for $2 a drawing, ...

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 ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Thinking about buying a Powerball ticket? Winning the lottery is a long shot at 1 in 292.2 million odds of taking home the jackpot. But for $2 a drawing, maybe it's worth a try. You might have your ...

European law enforcement in an operation codenamed 'SIMCARTEL' has dismantled an illegal SIM-box service that enabled more than 3,200 fraud cases and caused at least 4.5 million euros in losses. The ...

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 ...