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| | While preparing the first in an upcoming series of posts on multi-armed bandits, I realized that a post diving deep on a simple Monte Carlo estimate of $\pi$ would be a useful companion, so here it is
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| | I have already discussed the concept of the quantile absolute deviation in several previous posts. In this post, we derive the equation for the relative statistical efficiency of the quantile absolute deviation against the standard deviation under the norma...
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| | In inverse transform sampling, the inverse cumulative distribution function is used to generate random numbers in a given distribution. But why does this work? And how can you use it to generate random numbers in a given distribution by drawing random numbers from any arbitrary distribution?
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| In the previous blog post in this series, we looked at Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem, and came to the amazing conclusion that we can't compute certain kinds of functions in formal systems (like Javascript). Specifically, we looked at a special function, , which turned out to be non-computable. In case we forgot, the first incompleteness ...