Comment on What does randomness look like?Comments−Uhhrrr13y"Gravity's Rainbow", by Thomas Pynchon, has an extended section about the Poisson distribution as applied to falling bombs, maternity wards, etc.:http://books.google.com/books?id=GGPm4I3BbxAC&pg=PT194&#...(possibly NSFW)−krymise13yThat book is exactly what I thought of when reading the article. Everyday I learn something new that seems to unlock a section of that novel that was previously opaque.
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"Gravity's Rainbow", by Thomas Pynchon, has an extended section about the Poisson distribution as applied to falling bombs, maternity wards, etc.:
http://books.google.com/books?id=GGPm4I3BbxAC&pg=PT194&#...
(possibly NSFW)
That book is exactly what I thought of when reading the article. Everyday I learn something new that seems to unlock a section of that novel that was previously opaque.