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		hackermailman on Dec 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probabilit... Lecture 16 in this Discrete Probability pdf[1] covers how Diaconis and his students decrypted some prison ciphertext brought to them [1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/papers/probability-and-compu...

theoh on Dec 27, 2018 [–]

I found the original account by Diaconis, with more detail:

"The Markov Chain Monte Carlo Revolution" (it's the first example in the paper)

https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/MC...

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