[Noisebridge-discuss] [ml] Probability study group

Ben Weisburd ben.weisburd at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 05:28:21 UTC 2010


No, that's great. I think people should come to as many meetings as they
can/want.

Look forward to meeting you,
-Ben


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Ben Kleinman <bmkleinman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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