Probability: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:35, 5 November 2010

When: Tuesdays 7:30 to 8:45pm starting 11/9/2010 Where: back classroom

A probability study group was proposed on the noisebridge-discuss list and cc'ed to the Machine Learning mailing list.

The goal is to go through the 7 chapters of Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory at a pace of 1 chapter per week.

Proposed meeting format (to be discussed at 1st meeting):

30 min - a volunteer presents the material in the chapter (this will be for people who didn't have time to read the chapter at home, and for those who want to teach)
30-45 min - discussion and problem solving (those who solved the problems at home can compare answers, those who didn't can work on the problems together)

Go through chapter 1 and problems 1.03, 1.08, 1.09, 1.12, 1.13, 1.21, 1.24, 1.30 (recommended by Drake in the preface)
When: Next Week (TBD)
Where: Noisebridge - 2169 Mission St. (back corner classroom)

Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory by Al Drake
Fifty Challenging Problems by Frederick Mosteller (~ 15 of the problems are viewable in amazon's preview). Monte-carlo simulations of these: Josh Myer's blog

Conditional Risk (from http://xkcd.com/795/ )

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-=== Lets Pick a Time ===
+=== General ===
-Anyone interested in attending please select the times you can meet.
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+When: Tuesdays 7:30 to 8:45pm starting 11/9/2010
+Where: back classroom
-The meeting time will be chosen this Friday (11/5) at 5:00pm,
-and the 1st meeting will hopefully take place next week.
-=== General ===
 A probability study group was proposed on the noisebridge-discuss list and cc'ed to the [[Machine Learning]] mailing list.