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Random sampling is not only useful for quick and dirty debugging, but also for engineering nuclear bombs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis–Hastings_algo
by 082349872349872 2y ago
Random sampling is not only useful for quick and dirty debugging, but also for engineering nuclear bombs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis–Hastings_algorithm#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis–Hastings_algorithm#...
- kragen 2y agofew phenomena in daily life are either quicker or dirtier than a nuclear bomb
- mananaysiempre 2y agoOf course, a lot of that old neutron transport work is now used for ray tracing in cinema production. Metropolis (and MCMC is general) is one, and I also remember some sort of volumetric scattering thing as well.