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A newly discovered set of mathematical equations describes how to turn any sequence of random events into a clock, scientists ...
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To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox comes to us from the world of set theoretic geometry. If that’s not familiar ...
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Why Some Problems Can’t Be Solved Without Randomness

Today we're looking at HyperLogLog, an algorithm that leverages random chance to count the number of distinct items are in a dataset. It does this by tracking the longest run of zeros in a binary ...