Tag: randomness

• Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova: The Butterfly Effect in Poker. Plus: How To Think About Conspiracies.

  July 20, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/GjL2rWn Nate and Maria share some updates from the final days of the World Series of Poker, and reflect on the importance of making peace with randomness. Then: the… more ›

• The search for the random numbers that run our lives

  July 6, 2024

  Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a surprising proportion of modern life would break down. So, why are they so hard to find? The friends did… more ›

• Siege

  May 5, 2021

  Fate and coincidence conspire behind closed doors and establish a sense of inevitability in global affairs. more ›