(ML 18.1) Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) introduction
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Uploaded by mathematicalmonk on Jul 25, 2011
Introduction to MCMC. The intuition behind why MCMC works. Illustration with an easy-to-visualize example: hard disks in a box (which was actually the first application of MCMC).
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So this is where I go after graduating from Khan Academy! Thanks for posting these videos, very helpful!
7 months ago 4
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Great videos! Thanks! You're an excellent teacher! It would be great to have more examples and some matlab code ;-)
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Thank you :)
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Great video, the initial physics application for MCMC was in modelling neutron diffusion
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Kudos to you and khanacadamy for tearing down the academic barrier!
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Thank you very much, you did awesome job
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I did my senior thesis on this topic - nicely done, sir.
PumaBeats 7 months ago
@PumaBeats Cool topic for a senior thesis. Thanks for the comment.
mathematicalmonk 7 months ago