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The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
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A Veritasium video on how a feud between Russian mathematicians led to Markov chains and the modern prediction algorithms built on them. It covers the history and the math behind them.
HN recommends it as an excellent, detailed history of Markov chains, often in threads on Markov models and language models.
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