Jeremy Kun personal blog
Markov chain Monte Carlo without the bullshit (2015)
I have a little secret: I don’t like the terminology, notation, and style of writing in statistics. I find it unnecessarily complicated. This shows up when trying to read about Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Take, for example, the abstract to the Markov Chain Monte Carlo article in the Encyclopedia of…
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Math & AlgorithmsAI & Machine Learning2022
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Oct 25, 2022 | Markov chain Monte Carlo without the bullshit (2015) by larve | 233 | 53 |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All the Bullshit (2015) by ibobev | 229 | 48 |
| Sep 20, 2016 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without the Bullshit (2015) by sebg | 125 | 20 |
| Apr 7, 2015 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without Jargon by diego898 | 114 | 17 |
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