Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Random Sites

Photoring - random photo blog. The photo ring is the same as a web ring, but for sites that are only photo blogs.

Random Yahoo Link - click this for a random link to a website from Yahoo.

Slash Random - this is a blog dedicated to gaming.

Random Quotes - this page displays a random quote. The site has community features, bookmarking features for user's favorite quotes.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Random Numbers

Here is information about Random Number's and a list of Random Number Generators:

Learn about Random Number on Wikipedia.

HotBits: Genuine Random Numbers - this article states that there random numbers can not be generated by a computer because the numbers are generated from an algorithm that has deterministic results. Genuine random numbers can be generated by a computer being hooked up to a "Geiger-Müller tube interfaced to a computer". That produces natural radioactive decay that is genuinely random.

Boost Random Number Library - this is a library for C++ to generate random and pseudo-random numbers.

Random Number on Wolfram Mathworld.

Pseudo Random Number Generators - uniform and non-uniform distributions. These are available in C++ and binary.

Python Library Reference - Generate Pseudo-random Numbers.

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates.

Random Number Generators in JavaScript - this tool can be used right in the browser. A more advanced package can also be downloaded.

Random Number Generation by Taygeta Scientific, Inc.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Random House

Random House is a website focusing on literature. They publish fiction, nonfiction, & children's books. There website is make's it easy to find books that people are interested in. There books are categorized and easily browsed and searched for.

Learn about Random House on Wikipedia.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Random Website

Random Website is a website that will send you to a random website. Go to the website and click the Random Link link and it will redirect you to a random website that was submitted to their site.

Randomness - Wikipedia

In typical day to life, people use the term random to describe an event that was not expected. According to Wikipidia, randomness "is typically used to denote a lack of order, or purpose, or cause". Wikipedia describes the use of "random" in many different fields such as Physics, Biology, Finance, Mathematics, Religion, and more... Statistics is probably the most well-known use of the term. According to Wikipedia, "[t]he term [random] is often used in statistics to signify well-defined statistical properties, such as a lack of bias or correlation."


More Related Wikipedia Pages:

Random Access - in computer science, memory should be able to be accessed equally fast.

Random Process - this is basically the same as a Non-Deterministic Finite Automata.

Buridan's Ass - if a mule were to have two stacks of hay, equally far apart, equal size, equal everything, which one would it choose? There is no favorite of one over the other. Would the mule starve to death because it has no logical reason to choose one over the other? The mule would have to make a truly random decision. This is assuming that the mule was not right or lefty, but each direction to itself was exactly the same.

Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts is a website where user's can view and post their thoughts. As of this writing, there are 33,264 thoughts and 26,513 comments on the thoughts.

There are some nifty ways to view the thoughts. The obvious is by clicking the Next Random Thought>>> link. That will display a thought at random. The thoughts and comments can be sorted by time: Recently Added Thoughts and Recently Added Comments.

This website has a Rating System that allows user's to sort the thoughts by user's ratings. This will allow the better and worse rated thoughts to be found easier. These ratings can be sorted by value of rating, sorted by number of votes, and sorted by date rated.

Here is the link system directly from the site:


Random - Programming Functionality

Java 2 Standard Edition (version 1.5) - Class Random.

Python - Generate pseudo-random numbers - Random.

.NET Framework - Random Class.

Processing (version 1.0) - Random.

EXSLT - Random.