George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

Fragmentation, or how things break, may seem like a truly random process, but new study shows that fragmentation will actually follow a process to maximize entropy. This behavior is a manifestation of ...

A key White House office has approved a proposed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule that could fundamentally change how H-1B visas are assigned, moving away from the long-standing random ...

ABSTRACT: An algorithm is being developed to conduct a computational experiment to study the dynamics of random processes in an asymmetric Markov chain with eight discrete states and continuous time.

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also ...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. would love to see NASCAR change its practice and qualifying rules. On Dale Jr. Download, Earnhardt shared his thoughts on the return of random draw qualifying and the former ...

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Abstract: This Research to Practice Full Paper presents the design and initial evaluation of engaging students in a random signal analysis course through a set of application-oriented mini-projects ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important ...