'Silly sprinklers' put in reverse to further unravel decades-old physics puzzle

Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: "silly sprinklers," whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways ...

Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...
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Researchers propose light-driven random number generator for image security

While security systems based on pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) have been developed to secure information use, they ...
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Function decoration for backoff and retry — modern, fast, zero dependencies.

backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.
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An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Random Numbers in Godot: Part 2

In the previous part, we covered the basics of random numbers. In this part, we will use the RandomNumberGenerator class to configure random numbers in more depth. There are two ways to generate ...
IEEE

Are Requirements Really All You Need? Using LLMs to Generate Configuration Code: A Case Study in Automotive Simulations

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are taking many industries by storm. They possess impressive reasoning abilities and are capable of handling complex problems, as shown by their steadily ...
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How to generate random numbers, shuffle lists, and create test data in Excel

Most people treat Excel as a rigid calculator, completely missing its capacity for chaos. Excel's built-in randomization tools can generate numbers, shuffle existing lists, and build mock timelines in ...