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Monkeys.zip
A simulation of the infinite monkey theorem that sets 3,000 virtual monkeys typing at random to see how much Shakespeare…
Monte Carlo Methods
An interactive tutorial on the law of large numbers and Monte Carlo methods, using roulette to show why the casino alway…
Monte Carlo Methods
An interactive tutorial on the law of large numbers and Monte Carlo methods, using roulette simulations to show why the…
My Favorite Paradox
A clear walk through Simpson's paradox, showing with game and real-world data how numbers that look right can point to t…
Possibly a Serious Possibility
Adam Kucharski explains how vague 'lurking weasel' phrases such as 'serious possibility' skewed Cold War intelligence as…
Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
A tic-tac-toe variant where chance shapes every move, playable right in the page along with a discussion of how to play…
Seeing Theory
A visual introduction to probability and statistics from Brown University, using interactive animations of coin flips, d…
Split or Fall
A small probability explorable where you try the experiment yourself and watch how chance plays out, turning an abstract…
Statlect
A free digital textbook with hundreds of lectures on probability, mathematical statistics, and matrix algebra, with proo…
The Infamous Coin Toss
A lay-audience explanation of ergodicity breaking through a simple coin-toss gamble where the average outcome and what h…
The Kelly Criterion: How to Size Bets
An interactive explorable that lets you play a biased coin game to discover how much to bet, and why the Kelly criterion…
The Taxi-cab Problem Explorable
An eight-minute interactive explanation of the 1982 taxi-cab hit and run puzzle, an unintuitive probability problem expl…
Unshuffled
A tiny site that tests the saying that every shuffled deck of cards is in a unique order, showing you a fresh shuffle on…
Unsure Calculator
A back-of-the-napkin calculator that lets you do arithmetic with numbers you are not sure about, using ranges and return…
Vampire Lottery Survival Simulator
You are a newly turned vampire with eternity to kill: buy lottery tickets week after week and watch the centuries roll b…
What Are the Odds?
An interactive page that walks you through increasingly small probabilities, comparing the odds of some of the rarest ev…
What really has a 1 in a million chance?
A Berkeley statistician's playful classroom topic: sort out which everyday events genuinely have one-in-a-million odds,…
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