The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
Veritasium1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2025–2025
explainer · general · evergreen · 2025–2025 on HN
A Veritasium video on how a feud between Russian mathematicians led to Markov chains and the modern prediction algorithms built on them. It covers the history and the math behind them.
HN recommends it as an excellent, detailed history of Markov chains, often in threads on Markov models and language models.
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3 comments from Hacker News
I assume OP watched this excellent Veritasium video about Markov and his chains [0] and posted this article which was referenced in that video. [0] ▶ this video
Ah, yes, Markov chains. A long time agoMark V. Shaney link was designed by Rob Pike and posted on Usenet. And Veritasium's video "The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything" talks in detail about the history of Markov chains: ▶ this video
not sure if it counts as a list of case studies, but a relevant and recent video nonetheless ▶ this video also in general bayesian statistics random medium article: link