My former student Newshaw Bahreyni and I have published our paper on a potential foundation for emergent space-time at the Journal of Mathematical Physics. Here is the abstract: We present a novel derivation of both the Minkowski metric and Lorentz…
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Textbooks on Bayesian Probability Theory
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I have been teaching the course titled “Bayesian Data Analysis” for almost 8 years now at the University at Albany. Here is a course description: Course Description: Introduction to both the principles and practice of Bayesian and maximum entropy methods…
Information and the Two Child Problem
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Last year (wow…time flies), I posted a solution to the Two Child problem using Bayes theorem. If you are unfamiliar with this problem, you may want to read that post first. There has continued to be discussion on this topic…
Automatic Graph Paper Generator
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Today I needed a sheet of graph paper with centimeter squares, and I stumbled upon this site: Free Online Graph Paper You can choose among an extremely wide variety of types and there is an applet that lets you specify…
Bayes Theorem and our poor sense for Probability
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One of the groups I belong to on LinkedIn posted an interesting problem that was published in a New Scientist article on the Gathering for Gardner meeting. The problem goes like this: I have two children. One is a boy…