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The Russian Math Behind Google's Trillion Dollar Algorithm

How a feud in Russia led to modern prediction algorithms.

00:00 - The Law of Large Numbers

04:37 - What is a Markov Chain?

09:43 - Ulam and Solitaire

12:21 - Nuclear Fission

15:46 - The Monte Carlo Method

16:32 - The first search engines

19:07 - Google is born

25:16 - How does predictive text work?

27:10 - Are Markov chains memoryless?

29:41 - How to perfectly shuffle a deck of cards

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