18 October 2025

While geeking out over a function that generates a random number during my university years, I was surprised to learn that it is actually impossible for computers to produce a truly random number, as it goes against their nature. Well, I knew computers were deterministic and I shouldn't have been surprised by this information, but I was still amazed. In my professional career, I didn't have to work with random generators a lot but when I did, I took a deeper look at the built-in random functions…