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World's Fastest Random Number Generator from 'Sounds of Silence'

• tzs 15y ago
  Here's the researcher's site: http://photonics.anu.edu.au/qoptics/Research/qrng.php http://photonics.anu.edu.au/qoptics/Research/qrng.php They link to their paper there, but the link is to a journal with a paywall. Here's a free copy of their paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4438 http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4438
• rheide 15y ago
  "Moreover, anyone who downloaded live random numbers from the ANU website will get a fresh and unique sequence of numbers that is different from all other users." - that doesn't sound very random..
  • shasta 14y ago
    They mean with probability 1.
• pragone 14y ago
  I got a little bored and wanted to play around in various languages, so I'm writing a scraper for this: https://github.com/pcragone/anurandom https://github.com/pcragone/anurandom
• J3L2404 14y ago
  Although it's not clear from the article it appears to be not so much listening to vacuum noise as reading how the known resonant frequencies are being damped by quantum fluctuations.