While the outcome is always random when measuring a single particle, a pair’s properties are more correlated than classical physics dictates. This allows experts to verify the randomness at a ...

↪python sendemail.py This shows the real power of Python as a utility in a chain of bash commands such as this. Writing scripts that accept input from standard input and write any data out to standard ...

But the random number generator they built was, they reasoned, still useful. So Haahr made it public at random.org, where it has been churning out random numbers ever since. It gets a lot of visitors.

A new technology called Codex generates programs in 12 coding languages and even translates between them. But it is not a threat to professional programmers.

You can write a Python program or use a Jupyter Notebook to do almost anything. But you can also get a lot of things done quickly using a spreadsheet. Grist is a “hacker’s” spreadsheet that ...