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I saw Persi Diaconis lecture on coin flips and shuffling cards once. Very interesting guy. What metaphor for a Bernoulli trial do you prefer?
by olooney 8y ago
I saw Persi Diaconis lecture on coin flips and shuffling cards once. Very interesting guy.
What metaphor for a Bernoulli trial do you prefer?
- hackermailman 8y agoLecture 16 in this Discrete Probability pdf[1] covers how Diaconis and his students decrypted some prison ciphertext brought to them [1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/papers/probability-and-computing-lecture-notes.pdf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/papers/probability-and-compu...
- theoh 8y agoI found the original account by Diaconis, with more detail: "The Markov Chain Monte Carlo Revolution" (it's the first example in the paper) https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/MCMCRev.pdf https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/MC...