At the end of March I gave a talk about how to obtain a wide range of Bernoulli distributions with as few parameters as possible. This originates from the needs of simulations of complex systems with cellular automata machine. The solution I described comes from Mark Smith’s doctoral thesis, performed under the supervision of Tommaso Toffoli.
I wrote a post on this on my blog on cellular automata.
Link: http://anotherblogonca.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/random-settings-in-cellular-automata-machines/
Theory Lunch 