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How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable #veritasium #science #physics #math

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Sean McClure5 months ago

“randomness” inside a constructed constraint system is not randomness in nature. A Galton board is an engineered object which artificially enforces repeated binary branching, symmetry, constraints, paths and board geometry. You’re looking at something designed to Gaussianize, not some natural phenomenon. Gaussian distributions merely reflect structural constraints, almost always put there by man.

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Veritasium5 months ago

Watch the full video on YouTube

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Marcello5 months ago

What would happen if you let each balls separately, rather than all together?

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DesignedByNature5 months ago

In this toy the balls are not random. They bump against each other which influences the randomness

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Gaza Sucks 📟5 months ago

If you say a stock price is equally likely to go up 100% or down 100%, then it'll quickly drop to zero. But if it's equally likely to double or halve — i.e. go up 100% or down 50% — then you'll get a random walk than never reaches zero.

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Babak 𓄂☼🇮🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱♥5 months ago

Actually:

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Nox5 months ago

Except that's incorrect, and you should in epistemic honesty do a second video on Mandelbrot because CLT empirically does not work with price returns due to the distribution.

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DULA5 months ago

@grok 😉

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xAFTERMATH5 months ago

Attn Mighty @FairParentingUK 🤔🤫

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TheoryOfNearlyEverything5 months ago

utter BS !! RETARD!! 👇

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Jan | Outcircle AI5 months ago

That transition from order to chaos isn't random; it's governed by precise bifurcation points. We mapped how systems reach that edge of criticality before they tip into complexity. The second layer gets very deep 🌀 deepscroll > doomscroll 👇

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Delappe Designs5 months ago

Then it wouldn’t be random, would it…why are we still having this conversation?

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Delappe Designs5 months ago

The pachinko machine of life, lol.

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juan hojita5 months ago

What if the starting point is to the left or right?

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Agathatopian5 months ago

@nntaleb may have, thoughts.

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Timothy Norman5 months ago

You can filter data in the exact same way for more predictable and quicker outcomes.

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