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Randomness of wrapped RNG
There are plenty of questions around regarding random number generation, but I couldn't find anything that exactly matched my question. Apologies if I missed one.
Most random number generators in ...
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Is code that terminates on a random condition guaranteed to terminate?
If I had a code which terminated based on if a random number generator returned a result (as follows), would it be 100% certain that the code would terminate if it was allowed to run forever.
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Vim and emacs usage/use case/user statistics
I wonder if there are statistical documents/research based on use of the two major text editors, in which amount of usage is compared to use case, be it programming language, industry, user age, OS ...
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Programming language trends
Are there some statistics out there that show the approx. number of users that popular programming languages have and the rate this number increases over time?
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Learning the rules of chess
A similar question asks whether a computer can learn to play optimally in chess by analyzing thousands of games.
If a machine can look at the state of the board for a few games of chess (or a few ...
