[Noisebridge-discuss] [ml] Probability study group

[Ben Weisburd]

Hi,
Can people let me know if they're planning to come this Tuesday at 7:30pm?

Thanks,
-Ben





On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Ben Weisburd <ben.weisburd at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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