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#1073 David Wolpert: History as a Stochastic Process

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Navigating History: Stochastic Processes and Narrative

This chapter explores the interplay between stochastic processes and historical narratives, emphasizing their complementary roles. It critically examines past misuse of quantitative methods in social sciences, the resistance to numerical analysis in history, and the challenges of predicting future events amid vast modern data and uncertainty.

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