Mark Fickett | Art Stuff | Dice Roller

"An automatic system for rolling a polyhedral die and taking photos of the rolls; extracting the image of just the die from those images; clustering the images of the die by which face is shown; and analyzing the results."

to dice games random rpg statistics vision ... on 19 September 2016

How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security

Why you want to use a good RNG and a proper shuffle algorithm.

to ag0803 games random security shuffle ... on 07 June 2015

Ciphers By Ritter: Cryptography and Technology

Various crypto stuff, with some interesting (Usenet-sourced) comments on RNGs.

to cryptography random rng ... on 03 May 2015

The bell has tolled for rand() | Explicit C++

What to use instead of rand().

to ag0700 c++ library rand random ... on 22 March 2015

PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators | PCG, A Better Random Number Generator

An RNG that's a bit more complex than the good old "minimal standard" one, but substantially better. I am, however, really not convinced about the critique of ChaCha20 here (it's not really fair to complain that it's not had much cryptanalysis because it's new -- and then propose *your own* new one!).

to random rng software ... on 17 March 2015

waywardgeek/infnoise ยท GitHub

Generating random numbers by analogue modular multiplication and feedback. Neat idea. (And should be easy to hack together using a FET-input op-amp and an Arduino board for the FTDI chip...)

to crypto electronics noise random rng ... on 05 March 2015

Bob Jenkins' Web Site

Good material on simple hash functions and PRNGs, and how to test them.

to crypto hash maths random software ... on 30 October 2010

Yet another RNG - sci.stat.math | Google Groups

TRH's recommendation for a PRNG with 16-bit output -- although this one has more than 16 bits of internal state.

to maths random ... on 19 August 2009