<div>Alright people, lets get this started : )</div><div>Looks like tuesday night is good for 100% of respondents and the back classroom is available.</div><div>So, how about - this tuesday night:</div><div>7:30pm - I present chapter 1</div>
<div>8:00pm - introductions, discuss people's expectations & ideas</div><div>8:15pm - do some book problems and/or go over answers to problems we've done at home</div>
<div>8:45-9:00pm - the end</div><div><br></div><div>Hope to see you there,</div><div>-Ben</div><div><br></div><div>Ps. A link to text book, list of chapter 1 problems, etc. are up at <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Probability">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Probability</a> </div>
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On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Ben Weisburd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben.weisburd@gmail.com" target="_blank">ben.weisburd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks Josh! I've been looking for something like this. <div>Just added it to our wiki.</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">-Ben</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Josh Myer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josh@joshisanerd.com" target="_blank">josh@joshisanerd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">FWIW, I'm about halfway through a Monte Carlo implementation of the questions in "50 Challenging Problems in Probability," which is a great resource for Mastery Questions.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://blog.appliedplatonics.com/tag/fifty-problems/" target="_blank">http://blog.appliedplatonics.com/tag/fifty-problems/</a> is an index of them. I'm now pretty firmly in the camp that believes nuanced probability formulations are mostly obsolete, and it's sufficient to do regressions on top of a bunch of Monte Carlo simulations. Some problems are intractable (due to combinatorial explosion, etc), but computers are just too fast for me to spend a lot of time getting hung up in the ways one can simplify (or symbolically approximate) exact solutions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(Don't tell the me of five years ago, he'd be kind of pissed that I went over to the SVMs-suffice camp.)</div><div>--</div><div>/jbm<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Ben Weisburd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben.weisburd@gmail.com" target="_blank">ben.weisburd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Great to see there's some interest.<div>Kai - thanks for setting up the wiki. (<a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Probability" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Probability</a>) </div>
<div>I just put up a proposed meeting format on there and also a set of chapter 1 problems which we can hopefully go over at the 1st meeting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To figure out the meeting time, can everybody please put in what time works for you at:</div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><a href="http://www.scheduleonce.com/MP.aspx?param=VT02OTA3My5UPTEuTT0zMzE1Ngqualqual" title="http://www.scheduleonce.com/MP.aspx?param=VT02OTA3My5UPTEuTT0zMzE1Ngqualqual" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51, 102, 187);background-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:13px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat" target="_blank">http://www.scheduleonce.com/MP.aspx?param=VT02OTA3My5UPTEuTT0zMzE1Ngqualqual</a></span></div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Look forward to meeting you all,</div><div>-Ben</div><div><br></div><div>Ps. Does somebody know how to set up a mailing list?</div><div><div></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Kai Chang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kai.salmon.chang@gmail.com" target="_blank">kai.salmon.chang@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd be down for teaching a chapter.<br><br><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Probability" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Probability</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Mike Schachter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@mindmech.com" target="_blank">mike@mindmech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div>Hey Ben,<br><br>I'd be interested in meeting up but I'm usually pressed for time. I<br>
cc'ed the machine learning group - probability is pretty important<br>for them and surely some ML'ers are interested!<br>
<br> mike<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Ben Weisburd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben.weisburd@gmail.com" target="_blank">ben.weisburd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
Hi, <div>Is anyone interested in joining up to learn probability over the next 1.5 months or so? </div><div>There is a great text book that's available free online: <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-041-probabilistic-systems-analysis-and-applied-probability-spring-2006/related-resources/" target="_blank">Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory by Al Drake</a></div>
<div>The author taught probability at MIT for many years.</div><div>Ideally, we would meet once a week and go over 1 chapter. Depending on people's interest, we could either have one person teach the chapter to everyone else during the meeting, or we could each read the chapter at home and do 10-or-so of the recommended problems. Then, we could spend the meeting discussing what we found interesting/confusing and comparing answers to the problems.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>-Ben</div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div>
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