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The benchmarks are quite simple and consist of generating IDs using each library's raw interface as much as possible, e.g. the UUID module is benchmarked by measuring the execution time of the ...

According to Andrej Karpathy on Twitter, the Python random.seed() function produces identical random number generator (RNG) streams when seeded with positive and negative integers of the same ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

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