NMCS4ALL: Random number generators

Twenty minute introduction to randomness and pseudorandom number generators, with demos. The New Mexico CS for All project is teaching computational thinking and programming.

PLEASE NOTE: I WILL NOT HELP YOU 'PREDICT RANDOM NUMBERS' UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

Production supported by the National Science Foundation, award # CNS 1240992

[jasonthomas]

This is great. I really enjoyed the observation about how we perceive large things to be constant, small things to be random, and everything else having cause and effect. That's a great observation.

[GNU_Linux_for_good]

That's one cool video. Very well explained, in a clear voice, black background, and on top of it: the animation on the left. Bravo.

[EliGamesOfficial]

Please, never stop doing what you do. I am in awe of your instructional quality.

[livelaurent]

Just subscribed.

Discovered your video series today (started with the Artificial Life one) and they are really good.
Your way of explaining things and the format is just perfect to me :)

Great job, we need more like you on the Internet!

[zyenapz]

What a really elusive topic, if I do say so myself!

Thanks for the really simple explanations and the graphical representations. I appreciate how you explained how a Mersenne Twister works in a simple manner. I was looking for videos on it and chanced upon yours!
Your channel is interesting and might check out more of your videos in the future! Have a nice day!

[kikemelly]

Brilliant video, Dave! Thank you very much. 

[nateshrager]

Fantastic breakdown and love the Mersenne Twister demonstration

[Ani-sfyr]

A doubt I have from 5 years has been cleared finally thank you sir. Mind Blowing explination.

[MudHoleCreation]

Wow. Great explanation, and visualization.

[nomorehentai]

Quality content! Can't think other word to describe

[RahulJain-wrkx]

Thats too god, It helped me to understand this Practically..
Thank you so much for sharing it

[gurkiratsingh]

Great video helped me in understanding basic concept.

[tiberiu_nicolae]

Your channel is excellent! You should have more viewers!

[anindyakusumaningrum]

thank you for sharing, it helped me a lot.

[khisteatul]

Dave, I hope you are doing great thanks for sharing this useful video. Very few people understands it practically... :) :) I am following your channel.

[bertblankenstein]

Thank you for not going through the entire Mersenne Twister sequence. Thank you for the video.

[ThankYouESM]

Liked and Subscribed! I've been trying forever to figure out how to generate 600x600 smooth images of a seemingly infinite variety without random that has constraints such as not allowing for there to be more than 10 of the same RGB values.

[nak]

Awesome video! I subscribed to your channel. Keep it up

[ehsanreghabi]

Jackpot!! what a channle ! What a Guy!

[PvblivsAelivs]

The Mersenne Twister is a lot like a linear congruential generator except that it operates in a different type of field. An LCG (designed to be maximal length) with a similarly sized modulus would be equally good (or equally bad, depending on your point of view.)