alt Hacker NewsI assume OP watched this excellent Veritasium video about Markov and his chains [0] and posted this article which was referenced in that video.
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You nailed it, I wanted to post the actual article but found that they where behind a paywall, and I don't know if pirated content is allowed to share here but it's definitely worth a read though!
Honestly a pretty bad video by Veritasium standards.
Consider the nuclear reaction metaphor. It's clearly not memoryless. Eventually you'll run out of fissile material.
The diagram for that example is bad as well. Do arrows correspond to state transitions? Or do they correspond to forks in the process where one neutron results in two?
I assumed he read the Illuminatus! Trilogy and wondered where Markoff Chaney's name originated... There might be something wrong with me, now that I think about it. /s
Top comment on the video gave me a chuckle.
> I wonder if Markov chains could predict how many times Veritasium changes the thumbnail and title of this video.