how to select a scientifically random sample from a whole
https://pynative.com/python-random-sample/
Background reading
Some background reading i did of tangential relation at best, or at any rate i ignored it all and went with the simplest thing for now.
- https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/blob/master/Chapter4_TheGreatestTheoremNeverTold/Ch4_LawOfLargeNumbers_PyMC3.ipynb
- https://engineering.ucsb.edu/~shell/che210d/python.pdf
- https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-get-embarrassingly-fast-random-subset-sampling-with-python-da9b27d494d9
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