There are Publix Supermarkets all over the Southeast. They're one of the ten largest supermarket chains in the country, with 748 stores in Florida alone.
Early Monday evening a small plane crashed into a Publix Supermarket in Deland, Florida. The pilot and passenger were badly burned. Fortunately, the injuries to shoppers were minor. The plane was destroyed. The store is in bad shape.
Do you believe in randomness? Some folks don't. They believe everything happens for a reason or God makes everything happen.
A definition of randomness is the unpredictability of events, i.e., events that have no aim or purpose.
Randomness is studied in every discipline. Theology certainly. For instance, Buddhists believe that any event is the result of previous events (Karma.)
In the world of finance there is the randomness of the stock market. Folks make predictions based on random variables but, from day to day, nobody knows how the market will do.
Plenty of people think they have the randomness thing solved and head for Vegas.
Suppose you were a man or woman stopping by Publix for bread and milk on your way home from work on Monday evening in Deland, Florida and an airplane falls from the sky into the dairy department.
How is that not random?
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Do you believe in randomness? Some folks don't. They believe everything happens for a reason or God makes everything happen.
A definition of randomness is the unpredictability of events, i.e., events that have no aim or purpose.
Randomness is studied in every discipline. Theology certainly. For instance, Buddhists believe that any event is the result of previous events (Karma.)
In the world of finance there is the randomness of the stock market. Folks make predictions based on random variables but, from day to day, nobody knows how the market will do.
Plenty of people think they have the randomness thing solved and head for Vegas.
Suppose you were a man or woman stopping by Publix for bread and milk on your way home from work on Monday evening in Deland, Florida and an airplane falls from the sky into the dairy department.
How is that not random?
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