McMillen discovered that when random paint splatters were processed by OCR software—character-scanning tools that are typically used to turn analog words into digital text—it resulted in valid ...

Nothing has been placed on screen haphazardly or without purpose, including random bits of barely glimpsed computer code. At one point, we briefly see this bit of code on Oscar Isaac’s computer… ...

Computer scientists have borrowed from the world of geology and crystals to help machines better generate random numbers. Here's how their method works.