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Making an Avatar with Kinect - Vox Silva
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Using inverse transform sampling to generate random numbers in a given distribution // My thought repository
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| | In inverse transform sampling, the inverse cumulative distribution function is used to generate random numbers in a given distribution. But why does this work? And how can you use it to generate random numbers in a given distribution by drawing random numbers from any arbitrary distribution?
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Crypto challenge - Mersenne seed recovery - deuterium's blog
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| | Can array based initialization of mersenne twister which is used in current libraries be reversed to get the seed (any 1-19937 bit quantity)
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Python refuses to use multiple cores - solution - xcorr: AI & neuro
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| | I was trying to get parallel Python to work and I noticed that if I run two Python scripts simultaneously - say, in two different terminals - they use the same core. Hence, I get no speedup from multiprocessing/parallel Python. After some searching around, I found out that in some circumstances importing numpy causes Python...
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RSA warns developers not to use RSA products - A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
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| In today's news of the weird, RSA (a division of EMC) hasrecommendedthat developers desist fromusingthe (allegedly) 'backdoored' Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator -- which happens to be thedefault in RSA's BSafe cryptographic toolkit. Youch. In case you're missing the story here, Dual_EC_DRBG (which I wrote about yesterday) is the random number generator voted most likely to...