the patterns of random bits it spits out may not be sufficient for applications requiring truly random data. [Giorgio] built his own random number generator, and after many statistical tests it ...

Open your favorite social media platform and note how many friends or followers you have. Specifically, note the first digit of this number. For example, if you have 400 friends, the leading digit ...

A statistical inkblot. With so much random data coming in, it seems impossible to say what’s a “pattern” and what’s not. But skepticism from the scientific community hasn’t stopped the ...

Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, which is a more generalized term for seeing patterns in random data. People often report seeing human faces or forms in inanimate objects. For instance ...

Walk through a forest for example and it appears completely random, despite the fact that natural patterns emerge at almost every turn. In the human world, ...