12/12/2011

Stanford's Online Game Theory Class...

If anyone else was interested in taking game theory next semester but couldn't due to a conflict with 36-402, you might be interested in registering for this online class that Stanford has going.

http://www.game-theory-class.org/

It's free (and isn't worth any credit), but if you're interested in the material, this may be useful.

H/T to ckt

12/07/2011

Shameless Self Promotion...

A slide from a group presentation/project I'm a member of appeared on the professor's blog.
http://bactra.org/weblog/843.html

The presentation was on our group's attempt to use a markov chain model to construct pseudo-Conrad text using the Heart Of Darkness as training text (i.e. the corpus).

If anyone's interested in seeing the code, here's a link to the project:
https://github.com/jasontc2/MarkovLanguage

The project is part of 36-350 (Statisitcal Computing) at CMU.
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/statcomp/

12/06/2011

Air Quality in China

In case you were wondering what it would have been like to live during the 19th century, present day China has been holding a live demo.

More details:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/chinese-smog-disaster-rouses-chinese-media/249533/

Larger version of photo:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/jamesfallows/assets_c/2011/12/ChinaDailySMog-71227.php