<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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