Markov Chains: The link between Plato, Bernoulli, Markov & Claude Shannon
Why did Bernoulli mention Plato’s Theory of Forms in Ars Conjectandi? What does this have to do with free will?
This video is a broad introduction to the Weak Law of Large Numbers, the Central Limit Theorem and how it all led to Markov Chains…
Next, play around with this interactive, graphical Markov simulator!
3 decades later, Claude Shannon famously applied this idea to generate “english looking” messages in his Mathematical Theory of Communication:
Brit Cruise 
July 15, 2015 at 4:26 pm
Love your stuff but can’t stand the background sound noise. So can never view to the end. Too bad. Your message is too full of noise.