Pull fresh Unsplash wallpapers and rotate them on GNOME automatically with a Python script plus a systemd service and timer.

Abstract: Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are an integral part of quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. To better understand the inherent physical processes, we compare the random numbers ...

Santa Claus is coming to town tomorrow night — and so is a chance to win one of the biggest Powerball jackpots in US history after the pot jumped to $1.7 billion after no winning numbers were drawn ...

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 ...

Almost everybody has a junk drawer — home to random cables, screws, oversized spoons, matchboxes, and foreign currency coins. It's where you put things that just don't belong anywhere else, either ...

Nearly 300 Burmese pythons were removed during a record-setting Florida Python Challenge this year, state wildlife officials said. The 10-day competition that ran from July 11-20 resulted in a record ...

Iowa State Cyclones quarterback Rocco Becht during the football team’s media day at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa, on Friday, July 25, 2025. Becht, a redshirt junior, threw for 3,505 yards and 25 ...

Abstract: Control systems education plays a fundamental role in engineering education, as it provides the foundation for understanding how dynamic systems respond to various inputs and behave over ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 5: The Washington Post Building at One Franklin Square in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) I could hardly believe it when I saw The Washington Post’s new ...