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Ep143 - Leonard Mlodinow | The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

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To beat the standard inpores 15 times in a row at random certainly is somethingtt wouldn't happen every day. So i think it makes sense to say bill miller was really talented, because to do this by chance alone would be really rare. But guess what? If they did in 19 90, we would have made just as much hooplaw about it. We wouldn't say, ogh, he started his streak in 19 90. That's really nothing. And that might sound like a long period but it's not really that long. Considering that the streak was 15 years, it's not even can fit three back into that time frame. The next point is that we still

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