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Vipul Nair

7:57 AM

yo bois

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Conor Mancone

1:56 PM

@VipulNair Been a while. What's up?

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Conor Mancone

4:25 PM

We need to somehow pin this question (and especially the first answer) to security.stackexchange and make everyone reading it before asking a question. I'm going to try to keep track of it so I can use it as a duplicate target for the dozen questions we get every week about this topic...

Q: Do advertisers listen as we talk?

A person talks about a certain thing (product or service) with another person and a short time after the talk the person gets the advertising of the discussed thing on the mobile or desktop device. I heard and read about such occurrences and didn't know what to think about it. Until some days ago...

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Nike Dattani

7:04 PM

Might be of interest:

Q: What are good random number generators for Monte Carlo calculations?

Many problems in Computational Physics need the use of random number generators. When studying magnetic materials using the Heisenberg/Ising hamiltonians (related questions about them can be seen here, here and here), one of the must used tool is the Metropolis method1. The Metropolis method can ...