For the last 5 years, data science has been one of the world’s hottest professions, but it is also one of the most poorly defined. This can be seen on any career website, where advertisements for ‘Data Scientist’ positions describe everything from what used to be a simple data analyst role, to technical, PhD-only, research positions working on artificial intelligence or autonomous cars.
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Previously, in a walkthrough on building a simple application without a database, I touched on randomness. Randomness and generating random numbers is a surprisingly deep and important area of computer science, and also one that few outside of computer science know much about. As such, for my own benefit as much as yours, I thought I would take a deeper look at the surprising complexity of randomness.
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