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| | This post is the first of a two-part series on early Monte Carlo methods from the 1940s and 1950s. Although Monte Carlo methods had been previously hinted at (for example Buffons needle), these methods only started getting serious attention in the 1940s with the development of fast computers. In 1949 a conference on Monte Carlo was held in Los Angeles in which the participants - many of them legendary mathematicians, physicists, and statisticians - shared their work involving Monte Carlo methods. It can ...
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| | Chess builds the some of the same skills required to become a computer programmer. This is an excellent game and can be played online or physically using a Chess board. Want to become a better Programmer? Pick up a Chess board, grab a friend and get moving.
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| | Before I read The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya, I only knew about John von Neumann in two contexts: that computers use the von Neumann architecture, and that he appeared in a story about a mathematical problem I remember from many years ago. After reading it, I understand what a genius he was,...
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| Hey everybody! The last couple days I have been trying to learn LASSO regression, which stands for Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator. I have several datasets with many variables, and I thought these would be a good opportunity to learn about how to lasso, while maybe answering a few questions about words. Right, the part I forgot about is that I have repeated measures data, which always complicates things.