Questions tagged [randomness]
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Is there any rigorous definition of just one single random choice?
The theory of probability uses random variables, which avoids the need to define what one single random choice means.
Yet in everyday conversations about probability, even professional probabilists often talk about making one single random…
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Are these random experiments the same?
Consider two experiments concerning similar fair coins(*):
Throw the same coin N times and observe the outcome.
Throw N similar but different coins 1 time each and observe the outcome.
(*) One can equally say "similar fair throws of coins" instead…
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Can an accident be prevented?
There's a whole safety industry that I'm sure will say they can be prevented, but do they really? I looked up the word's definition:
accident | ˈaksədənt |
noun
an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause
— Any…
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Can randomness create patterns?
I have heard the notion of randomness being able to create patterns but it seems that in every case of this, it is more of a perceived pattern more than anything. Every “pattern” usually ends up being imperfect, wishy washy, or a “half pattern” with…
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Does 1. extra-, 2. intra-polation fall under abduction, induction or deduction?
How does extrapolation relate to abduction, deduction, and/or induction? Scilicet, does abduction, deduction, and/or induction fully encompass Extrapolation?
Same question for Interpolation.
I screenshot from this Youtube video that…
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Reasoning and Randomness
What is the relation between reasoning and randomness or more specifically finding any relation between logic and stochastic processes? Why does it work so well, I wonder. For instance, prices in economic studies may move in random ways such as the…
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The initial point of everything
Every action is influenced by something, an action happens when it is intended to. Isn't everything influenced by some other phenomena that itself has been influenced by other events? Then every action I take and every thought that comes in my mind…
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How can we establish that causal relationships existed in the past?
From Hume's problem of induction, it is intuitive to me that, for example, "taking aspirin in the past has relieved my headaches" is insufficient to say with certainty that "taking an aspirin in the future will relieve my headaches". This is because…
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