Interesting Engineering

Q-dice: new quantum random number generator achieves 4.1 Gbit/s throughput

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) has announced Q-Dice, a high-performance Quantum Random Number ...

Solution To The Curious Mystery Of Why AI Keeps Inventing The Same Fake Names Over And Over Again

Curious mystery exists of why popular AIs create fake names of a persistent nature. Turns out its about statistics. An AI ...
Frontiers

GPS-free synchronized pseudo-random number generators for internet-of-things

Securing wireless communications in internet-of-things (IoT) requires both generation and synchronization of random numbers in real-time. However, resource constraints on an IoT device limit the use ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Multi-Class Classification Using a scikit Decision Tree

Decision trees are useful for relatively small datasets that have a relatively simple underlying structure, and when the trained model must be easily interpretable, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Binary Classification Using a scikit Decision Tree

The random_state parameter is a seed value for the model internal random number generator. Notice that 'gini' is the default splitting algorithm. In most situations, the default values of the other ...
GitHub

Random credit card numbers that pass the Luhn check

I wrote this when I was working on a Visa Level 1 merchant's credit card processing system, circa 2005. I needed arbitrary amounts of credit card numbers that passed the Luhn checksum test, but did ...
Frontiers

Evaluating dimensionality reduction for genomic prediction

The development of genomic selection (GS) methods has allowed plant breeding programs to select favorable lines using genomic data before performing field trials. Improvements in genotyping technology ...