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Best way to create unique token in Rails?

Here's what I'm using. The token doesn't necessarily have to be heard to guess, it's more like a short url …

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Random word generator- Python

So i'm basically working on a project where the computer takes a word from a list of words and jumbles …

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How to hash a string into 8 digits?

Is there anyway that I can hash a random string into a 8 digit number without implementing any algorithms myself?

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scikit-learn random state in splitting dataset

Can anyone tell me why we set random state to zero in splitting train and test set. X_train, X_…

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Random row selection in Pandas dataframe

Is there a way to select random rows from a DataFrame in Pandas. In R, using the car package, there …

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Converting a Uniform Distribution to a Normal Distribution

How can I convert a uniform distribution (as most random number generators produce, e.g. between 0.0 and 1.0) into a normal …

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In python, what is the difference between random.uniform() and random.random()?

In python for the random module, what is the difference between random.uniform() and random.random()? They both generate pseudo …

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How to randomize (or permute) a dataframe rowwise and columnwise?

I have a dataframe (df1) like this. f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 d1 1 0 1 1 1 d2 1 0 0 1 0 d3 0 0 0 1 1 d4 0 1 0 0 1 The d1...d4 column …

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How to Generate a random number of fixed length using JavaScript?

I'm trying to generate a random number that must have a fixed length of exactly 6 digits. I don't know if …

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Get random sample from list while maintaining ordering of items?

I have a sorted list, let say: (its not really just numbers, its a list of objects that are sorted …

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