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Understanding Markov Chains with the Black Friday Puzzle

November 23, 2015 by Will Kurt

Use Markov Chains and Linear Algebra to solve this holiday puzzle!

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November 23, 2015 /Will Kurt
November 2015, Stochastic Processes, Markov Chains, popular
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The Toy Collector's Puzzle

October 13, 2015 by Will Kurt

In this post we look at the classic Coupon Collector's problem as well as a more interesting variant of it!

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October 13, 2015 /Will Kurt
October 2015, Stochastic Processes
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The Lebesgue Integral: a Curious Tea Party (Part 2)

September 29, 2015 by Will Kurt

Part 2 in our exploration of the Lebesgue Integral

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September 29, 2015 /Will Kurt
September 2015, Measure Theory, Integration
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The Lebesgue Integral: A Curious Tea Party (Part 1)

September 15, 2015 by Will Kurt

In this post we use a strange tea party to explore a practical understanding of the Lebesgue integral

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September 15, 2015 /Will Kurt
September 2015, Measure Theory, Integration
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Probability Spaces: An Illustrated Introduction

September 01, 2015 by Will Kurt

Using pictures to explain the idea of Probability Spaces in Rigorous Probability Theory

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September 01, 2015 /Will Kurt
September 2015, Measure Theory
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Measure Theory for Probability: A Very Brief Introduction

August 18, 2015 by Will Kurt

In this post we discuss an intuitive, high level view of measure theory and why it is important to the study of rigorous probability.

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August 18, 2015 /Will Kurt
August 2015, Integration
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The Riemann Integral

August 04, 2015 by Will Kurt

The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is a beautiful thing, but it fails to describe some very simple integrals. In this post we look at how the Riemann Integral can solve some of these problems.

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August 04, 2015 /Will Kurt
August 2015, Integration
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Programming the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

July 21, 2015 by Will Kurt

In this post we build an intuition for the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus by using computation rather than analytical models of the problem.

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July 21, 2015 /Will Kurt
July 2015, Integration
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