Math and the art of describing randomness | Stephan Dreiseitl | TEDxMCInnsbruck

Our brains are not good at dealing with randomness and prefer causal explanations of observed phenomena. In his talk “Math and the art of describing randomness “, Stephan Dreiseitl will tell you how we can recognize patterns in randomness to deal with uncertainty. As a teenager, Stephan Dreiseitl received a Commodore 64. Ever since then, he has been fascinated by computers. An early infatuation with computer games lead to a more mature interest in mathematics and artificial intelligence. After receiving a PhD and doing a postdoc in biomedical informatics, he is now a professor at the Hagenberg campus of the FH Upper Austria. He loves teaching mathematics and statistics as tools for structured and abstract thinking, skills he considers essential for a wide variety of computer-related activities. On the research side, he is interested in machine learning and its application in decision support tools. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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Who else thinks he looks like Steve jobs a bit from far?

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I couple weeks ago I flipped a coin 25 times, and only got 5 heads

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I was doing really good flips too, and catching in my hand