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Bertrand's Paradox (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile

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What it is

Numberphile interviews Grant Sanderson of 3blue1brown about Bertrand's paradox, where different reasonable ways of picking a random chord of a circle give different probabilities.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in threads on random sampling as a clear illustration of how reasonable-sounding random choices can give biased results.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “it does remind me of a nice 3Blue1Brown video”

    Bertrand's paradox on random chords of a circle.

    Dave_Rosenthal, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk”

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Topics: bertrand's paradox, random sampling, geometry, 3blue1brown, probability

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