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Daily tweets on probability from @JohnDCook.
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    Probability Fact
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    Oct 5, 2022
    Putting probability to work johndcook.com/blog/applied-p…
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    Var(X) = E(X²) - E(X)²
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    Kolmogorov's zero-one law:
    en.wikipedia.org
    Kolmogorov's zero–one law - Wikipedia
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    Aug 17
    Random is as random does
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    Random is as random does
    What is randomness? Nobody knows, or at least there's no consensus. Everybody has some vague ideas what randomness is, but when you dig into it deeply enough you find all kinds of philosophical...
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    Aug 17
    The entropy of a random variable is the integral of -f(x) log( f(x) ) where f(x) is the PDF of X.

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