Re:How odd is a cluster of plane crashes?
by eru on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @03:30AM
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People are seldom precise when they talk about randomness.
For example, you could mean: picking tracks with `putting back'. You could shuffle tracks like you shuffle a deck of cards, ie picking without putting back. It's still random, but with a different distribution.
Even picking the first track with 90% probability, and the rest with some other smaller probability is random. It's just not a uniform distribution.
For example, you could mean: picking tracks with `putting back'. You could shuffle tracks like you shuffle a deck of cards, ie picking without putting back. It's still random, but with a different distribution.
Even picking the first track with 90% probability, and the rest with some other smaller probability is random. It's just not a uniform distribution.