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Business, Numbers, Money, People

The long strange relationship between electronic music and business machines.

2 hrs ago •

A dive into sample packs, virtual instruments, and the accessibility of laptop music production.

Apr 15 •

The Real Imitation Game

AI and the art of the cover song

Apr 13 •

Heaven or Las Vegas?

All roads in the probabilistic universe lead to betting.

Apr 12 •

The Grand Unified Theory of Chance

The good and the bad of Kolmogorov's axioms

Apr 11 •

The inevitability of uncertainty in measurement

Apr 4 •

Your cunning attempt to trick me.

von Neumann and cryptographic randomness

Apr 1 •

March 2024

Is a statistician smarter than a fifth grader?

Take this quiz to find out.

Mar 28 •

Sounds Like Noise to Me

Computational randomness in the 1920s

Mar 26 •

Maximum Fisherhood

Ronald Fisher's shapeshifting conceptions of probability.

Mar 21 •

The Spirit of Radio

When we decided noise was random

Mar 19 •

Math in Substack

A dreaded process post

Mar 14 •

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