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Cosmic Rays: what is the probability they will affect a program?

Once again I was in a design review, and encountered the claim that the probability of a particular scenario was "…

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How to pick an item by its probability?

I have a list of items. Each of these items has its own probability. Can anyone suggest an algorithm to …

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Why is XOR the default way to combine hashes?

Say you have two hashes H(A) and H(B) and you want to combine them. I've read that a …

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Generate Random Boolean Probability

I only know how I can generate a random boolean value (true/false). The default probability is 50:50 But how can …

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How do Markov Chain Chatbots work?

I was thinking of creating a chatbot using something like markov chains, but I'm not entirely sure how to get …

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Is it safe to assume a GUID will always be unique?

I know there is a minute possibility of a clash but if I generated a batch of 1000 GUIDs (for example), …

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Probability of SHA1 collisions

Given a set of 100 different strings of equal length, how can you quantify the probability that a SHA1 digest collision …

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Algorithm to generate Poisson and binomial random numbers?

i've been looking around, but i'm not sure how to do it. i've found this page which, in the last …

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How do I programmatically calculate Poker Odds?

I'm trying to write a simple game/utility to calculate poker odds. I know there's plenty of resources that talk …

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Choose list variable given probability of each variable

I've been trying to code a program that uses the softmax activation function in the middle. Right now, I have …

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