Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb
This approach is critical and explains the parsimonious character of Extreme Value Theory: to figure out if a sequence is random, instead of counting heads and tails, start by looking at the maxima. See how much it diverges from 8. — PolitiTweet.org
Christopher D. Long @octonion
Hi Nassim, I've cobbled together a few results to duplicate your answer using a very different approach. Computati… https://t.co/oVFusR31fm