From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers
www.newscientist.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
i accidentally created hyper sonic in haste because i got a mod that allowed true randomisation of the items
December 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
i accidentally created hyper sonic in haste because i got a mod that allowed true randomisation of the items
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
www.newscientist.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
I'm sure it made it harder for players to coordinate as a team, but you'd hope the continual randomisation must have kept people from taking the sides entirely seriously. (Though there were probably still some Red Cap diehards who refused to cheer the Blue Caps on principle.)
December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I'm sure it made it harder for players to coordinate as a team, but you'd hope the continual randomisation must have kept people from taking the sides entirely seriously. (Though there were probably still some Red Cap diehards who refused to cheer the Blue Caps on principle.)
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Fantastic dedication🌟
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Congratulations to the amazing research team at Leicester
on their randomisation this week! 👏👏
Fantastic dedication🌟
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December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🌟 SITE SHOUTOUT 🌟
Congratulations to the amazing research team at Leicester
on their randomisation this week! 👏👏
Fantastic dedication🌟
Who will join them next? 😀
@nihr.bsky.social sky.social
@mft-edi.bsky.social
@uclh.bsky.social
Congratulations to the amazing research team at Leicester
on their randomisation this week! 👏👏
Fantastic dedication🌟
Who will join them next? 😀
@nihr.bsky.social sky.social
@mft-edi.bsky.social
@uclh.bsky.social
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
www.newscientist.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
Making their mark: Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow)'s 1st EASY-AS randomisation!
@leicesterctu.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social @nhsggc.bsky.social @nhsresearchscotland.org.uk
#Cardiology #AorticStenosis #ClinicalTrials #ClinicalResearch #Milestone #1stOfMany #Congratulations #TheStart
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#Cardiology #AorticStenosis #ClinicalTrials #ClinicalResearch #Milestone #1stOfMany #Congratulations #TheStart
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Making their mark: Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow)'s 1st EASY-AS randomisation!
@leicesterctu.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social @nhsggc.bsky.social @nhsresearchscotland.org.uk
#Cardiology #AorticStenosis #ClinicalTrials #ClinicalResearch #Milestone #1stOfMany #Congratulations #TheStart
@leicesterctu.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social @nhsggc.bsky.social @nhsresearchscotland.org.uk
#Cardiology #AorticStenosis #ClinicalTrials #ClinicalResearch #Milestone #1stOfMany #Congratulations #TheStart
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer - by @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social
www.newscientist.com/article/2494...
www.newscientist.com/article/2494...
We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
www.newscientist.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer - by @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social
www.newscientist.com/article/2494...
www.newscientist.com/article/2494...
I really appreciate Davenport et al pushing back.
They’re responding to a proposed protocol that will purposefully mislead #LongCovid patients about the aims of the study👇
Source: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
#MECFS #PEM
1/
They’re responding to a proposed protocol that will purposefully mislead #LongCovid patients about the aims of the study👇
Source: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
#MECFS #PEM
1/
December 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I really appreciate Davenport et al pushing back.
They’re responding to a proposed protocol that will purposefully mislead #LongCovid patients about the aims of the study👇
Source: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
#MECFS #PEM
1/
They’re responding to a proposed protocol that will purposefully mislead #LongCovid patients about the aims of the study👇
Source: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
#MECFS #PEM
1/
#ARISEAFRICAtrial is a stepped wedge cluster- this design is useful for interventions delivered at the ICU/hospital level and individual randomisation is difficult. Clusters transition from control to intervention at different times www.bmj.com/content/350/... #ccrdownunder @criticalcarereviews.com
The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial: rationale, design, analysis, and reporting
#### Summary points
www.bmj.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
#ARISEAFRICAtrial is a stepped wedge cluster- this design is useful for interventions delivered at the ICU/hospital level and individual randomisation is difficult. Clusters transition from control to intervention at different times www.bmj.com/content/350/... #ccrdownunder @criticalcarereviews.com
Records show schemes that march teenagers straight to prison were hailed as tough love until randomised evaluations revealed they make reoffending more likely
Hot spot policing cut crime rates, defying the belief that police should be spread evenly
Randomisation is a civic principle
The Monthly
Hot spot policing cut crime rates, defying the belief that police should be spread evenly
Randomisation is a civic principle
The Monthly
December 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Records show schemes that march teenagers straight to prison were hailed as tough love until randomised evaluations revealed they make reoffending more likely
Hot spot policing cut crime rates, defying the belief that police should be spread evenly
Randomisation is a civic principle
The Monthly
Hot spot policing cut crime rates, defying the belief that police should be spread evenly
Randomisation is a civic principle
The Monthly
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
www.newscientist.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
New Scientist
New Scientist
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are surprisingly hard to find. Now quantum mechanics has supplied the answer
New Scientist
New Scientist
Lots of research in this space since 2021. Swiss funding council and Danish as well as Austrian funders engaged. British Academy's small grants scheme is in its 2nd 3-year pilot of partial randomisation. First pilot demonstrated individual & institutional diversification; 2nd also tests outputs.
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Lots of research in this space since 2021. Swiss funding council and Danish as well as Austrian funders engaged. British Academy's small grants scheme is in its 2nd 3-year pilot of partial randomisation. First pilot demonstrated individual & institutional diversification; 2nd also tests outputs.
...Novel designs using randomisation, like MERIT, seem to compare each arm against against an assumed fixed population rates too IN EACH ARM.
December 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
...Novel designs using randomisation, like MERIT, seem to compare each arm against against an assumed fixed population rates too IN EACH ARM.
I would love to hear what you think of single arms in the phase 1 dose finding/optimization setting. Which is virtually 100% of onc trials. Optimus explicitly encourages randomisation.
December 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I would love to hear what you think of single arms in the phase 1 dose finding/optimization setting. Which is virtually 100% of onc trials. Optimus explicitly encourages randomisation.
This is one of the aspects of application assessment where partial randomisation has real potential to foster the funding of at least a proportion of submitted risky, innovative research projects (albeit working out where the threshold for being sorted into the lottery lies is complicated).
December 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is one of the aspects of application assessment where partial randomisation has real potential to foster the funding of at least a proportion of submitted risky, innovative research projects (albeit working out where the threshold for being sorted into the lottery lies is complicated).
Raffle ends tomorrow at 12 am GMT. 12 hours left to get your entries in one of the following:
- discord server
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Winners will be announced on the same day at 15:15 GMT when i record the randomisation on my server voice call.
- discord server
- telegram channel
- bluesky
Winners will be announced on the same day at 15:15 GMT when i record the randomisation on my server voice call.
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Next week is the deadline for the raffle. If you have not already entered, there is still time. You can either enter through the following:
- telegram
- discord server
- bluesky
Have a lovely day! 🤍🤍🤍
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Raffle ends tomorrow at 12 am GMT. 12 hours left to get your entries in one of the following:
- discord server
- telegram channel
- bluesky
- twitter
Winners will be announced on the same day at 15:15 GMT when i record the randomisation on my server voice call.
- discord server
- telegram channel
- bluesky
Winners will be announced on the same day at 15:15 GMT when i record the randomisation on my server voice call.
Correction, it contains *some* randomisation
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Correction, it contains *some* randomisation
Not sure there’s a disagreement - I agree with Sean about identification.
I don’t know what the proportions are, but I feel I read a lot of survey experiments where the authors are not clear what role the randomisation plays in generating an answer to a question.
I don’t know what the proportions are, but I feel I read a lot of survey experiments where the authors are not clear what role the randomisation plays in generating an answer to a question.
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Not sure there’s a disagreement - I agree with Sean about identification.
I don’t know what the proportions are, but I feel I read a lot of survey experiments where the authors are not clear what role the randomisation plays in generating an answer to a question.
I don’t know what the proportions are, but I feel I read a lot of survey experiments where the authors are not clear what role the randomisation plays in generating an answer to a question.
The connectivity settings are still in stock settings. Only changed the mac randomisation to "per connection" for these networks to get around Mac based rate limiting which is awfully common here. Maybe they block the graphene OS con check server though.
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The connectivity settings are still in stock settings. Only changed the mac randomisation to "per connection" for these networks to get around Mac based rate limiting which is awfully common here. Maybe they block the graphene OS con check server though.
Open Access UCL Research: Evidence for Causal Links Between Known Modifiable Risk Factors and Dementia: A Systematic Review of Mendelian Randomisation Studies
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Evidence for Causal Links Between Known Modifiable Risk Factors and Dementia: A Systematic Review of Mendelian Randomisation Studies
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UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Open Access UCL Research: Evidence for Causal Links Between Known Modifiable Risk Factors and Dementia: A Systematic Review of Mendelian Randomisation Studies
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
randomisation of the location and size of sensitive UI controls could work, but you'd have the entire UX team after you with pitchforks
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
randomisation of the location and size of sensitive UI controls could work, but you'd have the entire UX team after you with pitchforks
There's a bit of randomisation but it kinda depend on the content of the object she transforms.
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
There's a bit of randomisation but it kinda depend on the content of the object she transforms.
Playing OSRS again, got my first Zulrah kill. ^_^
Its funny, because like, I farm Vorkath as a money maker, but I found him easier than Zulrah because there is a lot more randomisation to account for, and swapping prayers in rhythm during the Jad phase is HARD when you have dyspraxia. 😅
Its funny, because like, I farm Vorkath as a money maker, but I found him easier than Zulrah because there is a lot more randomisation to account for, and swapping prayers in rhythm during the Jad phase is HARD when you have dyspraxia. 😅
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Playing OSRS again, got my first Zulrah kill. ^_^
Its funny, because like, I farm Vorkath as a money maker, but I found him easier than Zulrah because there is a lot more randomisation to account for, and swapping prayers in rhythm during the Jad phase is HARD when you have dyspraxia. 😅
Its funny, because like, I farm Vorkath as a money maker, but I found him easier than Zulrah because there is a lot more randomisation to account for, and swapping prayers in rhythm during the Jad phase is HARD when you have dyspraxia. 😅