Quanta Magazine

After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...
Tech Xplore

Ferroelectric memory enables one chip to sample randomness and compute for generative AI

For the first time, a research team has demonstrated an artificial intelligence semiconductor technology that integrates the ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Effect of Safety Management Based on Feedforward Control on the Awakening Quality of Patients Undergoing General Anesthesia for Lung Cancer Surgery ()

Department of Anesthesiology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China. A total of 46 lung cancer patients who underwent general anesthesia for surgery and were admitted to the ...
WeLiveSecurity

Fake call logs, real payments: How CallPhantom tricks Android users

There’s an app for everything nowadays… right? Well, looking up call records for a phone number of choice is not one of those things, as potentially millions of Android users found out after paying ...
IEEE

A Goldschmidt Division Method With Faster Than Quadratic Convergence

Abstract: A new method to implement faster than quadratic convergence for Goldschmidt division using simple logic circuits is presented. While the approximate quotient converges quadratically in ...
Investopedia

Simple Random Sampling Steps and Examples for Accurate Representation

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
IEEE

Enhanced Side-Channel Analysis on ECDSA Employing Fixed-Base Comb Method

Abstract: Table-based scalar multiplication provides practical security for ECDSA signature generation. However, a novel key recovery attack against this form of ECDSA signature generation that ...
Scientific Research Publishing

An Algorithm for Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution ()

A new algorithm is suggested based on the central limit theorem for generating pseudo-random numbers with a specified normal or Gaussian probability density function. The suggested algorithm is very ...
Pew Research Center

Moving Without Changing Your Cellphone Number: A Predicament for Pollsters

Each year about 36 million Americans move residences, according to the Census Bureau. And they quite often take their cellphone numbers with them. Others have not moved but bought their cellphone in a ...
Investopedia

How Stratified Random Sampling Works, With Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Lifehacker

Why iTunes Shuffle Isn't Random (and How to Fix It)

If you're still using iTunes, you've probably noticed that the Shuffle feature doesn't always seem the most random. In fact, at times Shuffle may have seemed completely set in stone (which, of course, ...