The Russian Math Behind Google's Trillion Dollar Algorithm
How a feud in Russia led to modern prediction algorithms.
2025-07-26 01:00:00 - Veritasium
00:00 - The Law of Large Numbers
04:37 - What is a Markov Chain?
09:43 - Ulam and Solitaire
12:21 - Nuclear Fission
15:46 - The Monte Carlo Method
16:32 - The first search engines
19:07 - Google is born
25:16 - How does predictive text work?
27:10 - Are Markov chains memoryless?
29:41 - How to perfectly shuffle a deck of cards