Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jun 6, 20151/ Historically, though statistics started in gambling, it has been driven by the risk-management motive, not the luck-creation motive416
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @smc90@smc90 That's questionable. Much of Gauss' work was driven by astronomy. Monte Carlo by nukes. Lots of app domains contributed to stats6:42 PM · Jun 6, 2015