Markov chain smoker

Earliest known poster for Markov chain smoker.

Markov chain smoker is a stochastic smoking model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state of a cigarette smoked in the previous event.

Hashtags

• #NonZeroSmokingPleasure

In the News

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  The Dark Lights is a 2008 product placement superhero film about a crusading District Attorney (Aaron Eckhart) who must stop the Smoker (Heath Ledger) from flooding Gotham City with cheap off-brand light cigarettes.

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  Virginia Slams is an American brand of female-oriented car-crash themed cigarettes.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• The Dark Lights
• Virginia Slams

External links

• Markov chain @ Wikipedia

• Marlboro commercial vintage ads @ YouTube
• 1968 Marlboro Cigarette Commercial @ YouTube

• Origin of Markov chains | Journey into information theory | Computer Science | Khan Academy @ YouTube

Social media

• Post @ Twitter (2 November 2022)
• Post Twitter (9 August 2022)
• Post Twitter (13 April 2022)