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07 Apr 09
Random Thoughts: Points and Poisson (d’Avril) « In the Dark
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People are actually pretty hopeless at understanding what “really” random processes look like, probably because the word random is used so often in very imprecise ways and they don’t know what it means in a specific context like this. The point about random processes, even simpler ones like repeated tossing of a coin, is that coincidences happen much more frequently than one might suppose.
Perceiving Randomness | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine
Humans are not very good at generating random sequences; when asked to come up with a “random” sequence of coin flips from their heads, they inevitably include too few long strings of the same outcome. In other words, they think that randomness looks a lot more uniform and structureless than it really does.
20 Mar 09
infinite thØught: brentano and chance
book and article recommendations on two philosophy topics - Brentano and phenomenology; plus philosophy of chance
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