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New comment by stoched in "Ask HN: Which tech specialities will be in greatest demand this coming decade?"

stoched — Thu, 07 May 2015 07:55:42 +0000

Quantum Computing

New comment by stoched in "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without Jargon"

stoched — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:28:23 +0000

Let me make this easier:

Lets plug a bunch of numbers into a function and sum them all up. That sum is the integral of the function that we plugged all the numbers into. That's the Monte Carlo method part.

To get the Markov chain part, we just randomly produce a new number based on the one we just got out of the function, to plug back into the equation.

New comment by stoched in "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without Jargon"

stoched — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:21:19 +0000

"Sometimes I get the idea that people in CS want to "get all this machine learning/data science stuff" without understanding the principles."

Thought I was the only one.