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Strangely, not one word about probability.
by iskander 15y ago
Strangely, not one word about probability.
- p4bl0 15y agoWhich is odd, because many CS fields require probabilities (for instance information theory and quantum computing).
- nphrk 15y agoAlso, pattern recognition/machine learning.
- currywurst 15y agohe he .. this is why I was careful to add "some of the math" :) I really liked the short, to the point summary, with some historical pointers thrown in for good measure.
- niels_olson 15y agoProbability is not the sort of math this guy is aiming at. Stats may be insanely common in practice, but they are small, disjointed subsets in a few of these big, categoric areas.
- iskander 15y ago>Probability is not the sort of math this guy is aiming at. I get that, I'm just not sure there's a good reason for it. Extending discrete models to their probabilistic versions is often very useful. Probabilistic knowledge representation is much less brittle than a logic-based system. Stochastic grammars and probabilistic automata have been essential to both language modeling and bioinformatics. Game graphs are nice for perfectly observable systems, but stochastic games are much more common in real life (and have to be modeled using some probabilistic mechanism). This page has some good fundamentals, it's just weird to me that probabilistic extensions weren't also presented.
- dimitar 15y agoThis is math used in "logic, linguistics, and computer science". As I understood it in all those fields.