[Noisebridge-discuss] [ml] Probability study group

[Ben Weisburd]

Alright people, lets get this started : )
Looks like tuesday night is good for 100% of respondents and the back
classroom is available.
So, how about - this tuesday night:
7:30pm - I present chapter 1
8:00pm - introductions, discuss people's expectations & ideas
8:15pm - do some book problems and/or go over answers to problems we've done
at home
8:45-9:00pm - the end

Hope to see you there,
-Ben

Ps. A link to text book, list of chapter 1 problems, etc. are up at
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Probability



On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Ben Weisburd <ben.weisburd at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Josh! I've been looking for something like this.
> Just added it to our wiki.
>
> -Ben
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> http://blog.appliedplatonics.com/tag/fifty-problems/ 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.
>>
>> (Don't tell the me of five years ago, he'd be kind of pissed that I went
>> over to the SVMs-suffice camp.)
>> --
>> /jbm
>>
>>
>> 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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>> --
>> Josh Myer 650.248.3796
>>  josh at joshisanerd.com
>>
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