[Noisebridge-discuss] [ml] Probability study group

[Ben Kleinman]

I'm nod sure how many meetings I can make, but I'd like to try to pop in
when I can (and keep up with the work).  Acceptable or should I punt?

Ben Kleinman
bmkleinman at gmail.com


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Ben Weisburd <ben.weisburd at gmail.com>wrote:

> Great to see there's some interest.
> Kai - thanks for setting up the wiki. (
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Probability)
> 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.
>
> To figure out the meeting time, can everybody please put in what time works
> for you at:
>
> http://www.scheduleonce.com/MP.aspx?param=VT02OTA3My5UPTEuTT0zMzE1Ngqualqual
>
> Look forward to meeting you all,
> -Ben
>
> Ps. Does somebody know how to set up a mailing list?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Kai Chang <kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'd be down for teaching a chapter.
>>
>> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Probability
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Ben,
>>>
>>> I'd be interested in meeting up but I'm usually pressed for time. I
>>> cc'ed the machine learning group - probability is pretty important
>>> for them and surely some ML'ers are interested!
>>>
>>>   mike
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Ben Weisburd <ben.weisburd at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Is anyone interested in joining up to learn probability over the next
>>>> 1.5 months or so?
>>>> There is a great text book that's available free online: Fundamentals
>>>> of Applied Probability Theory by Al Drake<http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-041-probabilistic-systems-analysis-and-applied-probability-spring-2006/related-resources/>
>>>> The author taught probability at MIT for many years.
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> -Ben
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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