Interesting Snippets from 2015-11-25

• plotly/plotly.js · GitHub

  The open source javascript graphing library that powers plotly https://plot.ly/javascript/

• TIFU by using Math.random() — Medium

  The PRNG algorithm behind V8’s Math.random() is called MWC1616. If you’re only using the most significant 16 bits it has a very short effective cycle length (less than 2³⁰). In general, it does poorly on empirical tests of quality. For most non-trivial use cases it’s not safe to pretend that it’s output is truly random. Be careful using it for anything you care about.

• How To Safely Generate A Random Number — Quarrelsome

  Use urandom.

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