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Lecture one starts with Sam saying ``idea * execution * luck == results and the luck term is a random number between 0 and 10,000``

Deterministic recipes don't exist anywhere outside the hard sciences (and even there it's not really deterministic -- chemical synthesis and experimental physics have an art to them)

Stochastic recipes on the other hand do exist. I think YC's recipe is quite good.

Thiel's is cooler though :p



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