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In Praise of the Coin Flip

How the humble coin-flip can help with problems in data science

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In 1953, a Donald Duck comic strip entitled “Flip Decision”, written by Carl Barks, proposed a pseudo-philosophy called flipism. The premise is simple: for every crossroad in life requiring a decision, choose a face of a coin (heads or tails), toss the coin, and then…