The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2025.
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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.
“this excellent Veritasium video about Markov and his chains”
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I assume OP watched this excellent Veritasium video about Markov and his chains [0] and posted this article which was referenced in that video. [0] ▶ this video
in “Problem solving using Markov chains (2007) [pdf]” · View on HN
Ah, yes, Markov chains. A long time agoMark V. Shaney [link] was designed by Rob Pike and posted on Usenet. And Veritasium's video "The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything" talks in detail about the history of Markov chains: ▶ this video
in “Markov chains are the original language models” · View on HN
not sure if it counts as a list of case studies, but a relevant and recent video nonetheless ▶ this video also in general bayesian statistics random medium article: [link]
in “Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?” · View on HN