Rabih Alameddine, who won the National Book Award last month, has described his idiosyncratic approach as “childish ...

The Random123 library is a collection of counter-based random number generators ( "CBRNGs") for CPUs (C and C++) and GPUs (CUDA and OpenCL), as described in Parallel Random Numbers: As Easy as 1, 2, 3 ...

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In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve a major problem in algebraic geometry — using entirely alien techniques. It instantly captivated the field, stoking excitement in ...

Abstract: Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are a burgeoning technology used for a variety of applications, including modern security and encryption systems. Typical methods exploit an entropy ...

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...

The model was caught on camera heading to a doctor’s appointment on Friday when her car was ticketed by a parking enforcement official, who took a photo of her license plate before issuing a citation.

Abstract: Automated vehicle platooning bears high potential to increase traffic efficiency, improve road safety, and reduce fuel consumption. To realize platoons with small inter-vehicle distances, ...

Fast function to parse ASCII strings containing decimal numbers into double-precision (binary64) floating-point values. That is, given the string "1.0e10", it should return a 64-bit floating-point ...