This could have gone in the Programmer's Symposium as well, but I'll ask here since it is really about the underlying math. For some background, a Markov chain is a sequence of things where the ...

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Some of the algorithms that underlie commonplace technology today have their roots in the nineteenth century–like the Markov chain. The brainchild of Andrey Markov–who was himself born on this day in ...