The foundational LLMs from the top labs are slowly converging on quality, but they’re also converging in some unexpected ways. ChatGPT, Gemini,

The math behind all the discussion of tonight’s Powerball drawing assumes true randomness – equal likelihood for each number to be chosen, both in the drawing itself and, crucially, in the process of assigning “Quick Picks” to ticket buyers who don ...

Education Minister Norma Foley is under fire as school principals voice anger after her department resorted to allocating funding for science projects via a “random number generator” after it received more applications than expected. Principals say ...

Cloudflare is one of those Internet companies you use all the time, but don’t usually know it. Big websites you visit use Cloudflare to shore up their defenses against denial of service attacks. The company needed some truly random numbers for its ...

“This is a marvelous step” toward more efficient random number generation, says Rajarshi Roy, a physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park who was not involved in the work. Random number generators are valuable tools in computing (SN: 5/27 ...