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 ...

Once you get past the big brand names on Amazon, have you ever noticed those really weird ones that start to pop up instead? Some look like typos. Others like wild mashups of recognizable words that ...

The decade-long effort to shift U.S. iPhone manufacture out of China to India is going to become more expensive for Apple, just in time for iPhone 17 season. The Trump-instigated delay in applying ...

An Introduction to Programming and Computer Science with Python, second edition is a free, open source textbook available under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Originally developed for UVM’s CS 1210 ...

I mentioned earlier that the numbers generated and choices made by the random module aren’t truly random, they’re pseudo-random, but what does this mean? Computers compute. They can’t pluck a random ...

If there's one component that's underrated for the massive impact it can have on your computer's speed, it's the RAM. RAM stands for random access memory, which is basically where your computer stores ...

Trade is a hot topic with a lot of uncertainty. Trade policy decisions made in Washington, D.C., will impact farmers and ranchers in the countryside. This Market Intel is part of a series exploring ...

In geometry the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is known as π. There are various ways to compute π. For example, it can be estimated from an infinite series of the form: π / 4 = ...

The waters off Singapore teem with tankers, container ships, freighters and smacks, importing everything from oil to electronics. Yet there is one commodity none of these vessels carries, and which ...

The Brazilian government has raised the import duty on solar modules from 9.6% to 25% this week. According to the Brazilian PV association ABSolar, this measure could undermine the country’s energy ...