Humans find the concept of randomness very hard to understand, and this can get us into big trouble. Randomness fools us all Here's a party trick. Get two friends. One will flip a coin 30 times and ...

Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a surprising proportion of modern life would break down. So, why are they so hard to find? The friends did their best to explain what they ...

21:16, Fri, May 1, 2015 Updated: 21:26, Fri, May 1, 2015 And punters tend to be more impulsive so they are willing to bet good money on an illusory pattern. Previous research has shown that people’s ...

“To swim against the current of human intuition is a difficult task. ... the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can, therefore, have a hard time accepting the ...

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and author of ‘Blueprints: How ...

Question: What is the role of provable randomness in cybersecurity? Duncan Jones, Head of Cybersecurity, Quantinuum: Provable randomness serves three critical roles in cybersecurity: It eliminates a ...

The static from a old radio is a form of random interference caused by electromagnetic activity in the atmosphere (Credit: Getty Images) Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a ...