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A few experiment by Brent. His process involves using noise generation, specifically the xxHash algorithm, to create a cohesive world map with smooth transitions between land and water using linear interpolation (LERP)

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Jeffrey Way of Laracasts demonstrates what the Gambler's Ruin is using PHP.

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Generating one voucher code is easy, but what if you need to generate thousands (or millions) and you need to be sure that each voucher code is unique? In this post, I will explain how you can solve this problem (in PHP).

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In an older but still post, Steve Hanov explains a nice algorithm to test out new features on your audience. I don't now if this approach will yield better results, but it sure is an interesting idea.

In recent years, hundreds of the brightest minds of modern civilization have been hard at work not curing cancer. Instead, they have been refining techniques for getting you and me to click on banner ads. It has been working. Both Google and Microsoft are focusing on using more information about visitors to predict what to show them. Strangely, anything better than A/B testing is absent from mainstream tools, including Google Analytics, and Google Website optimizer. I hope to change that by raising awareness about better techniques.

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While doing some research about other obfuscation techniques I stumbled upon an implementation based on Donald Knuth's integer hash. This unbelievable small and fast algorithm will generate random-like integers with the ability to convert them back to the original value. This technique was so cool that I decided to create a PHP package for it called Optimus.

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