The Ziggurat method
In this article I document my journey down the Gaussian random numbers rabbit hole.
Tutorials
Generating random floats
We've already hand-rolled our own RNG in a previous
article, to improve on what the C standard
library rand() gives us.
We also talked about how floats work.
In this article, I want to combine the two. I want to find out how we can generate random floating-point numbers between 0 and 1, and improve our rng.c library.
Hacking floats to learn how they work
In this article I want to explore floating-point numbers (floats). Floats are a bit more complicated than integers. It's quite easy to convert a bunch of bits to an (unsigned) integer, but for floats this is not trivial.
Stop using rand()
In this article I will try to convince you to stop using rand() in your C projects,
and write a better alternative from scratch.
Plotting histograms in the terminal
I was generating some random numbers the other day. And I really felt the urge to visualize them. Just to get an intuition, like, what's the shape of the distribution? Is it noisy or smooth?
When in Python, I would usually bust out pip install matplotlib for this kind of tech.
But what are the options when you're in C?
The 7 levels of highly effective Makefiles
Rumor has it that all Makefiles in use today were written in a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Nobody actually writes new Makefiles anymore, right?