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This article gives a great insight into the nature of randomness: http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like/ http://www.wired.com/2012/12/wha
by josephpmay 12y ago
This article gives a great insight into the nature of randomness:
http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like/ http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like/
- xsace 12y agoThat's the best thing I've read in days.
- michaelmcmillan 12y agoI agree! That was an easy-to-read explanation of Poisson Distribution.
- 3JPLW 12y agoVery related is our perception of randomness and our surprise at a cluster of accidents. It falls out quite nicely: if plane crashes are a poisson process, then, on average, they happen in clusters of e. See: Celebrities die 2.7183 at a time: http://ssp.impulsetrain.com/celebrities.html http://ssp.impulsetrain.com/celebrities.html