Hacker News'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert' much quoted in UK press
#HackerNews #ImmediateRedFlags #ExpertCritique #UKPress #MediaEthics #Misinformation
N-gated Hacker News🎲📉 Oh look, another "expert" who thinks they've cracked the code on making #MCMC magically simple, as if the problem was just too much #jargon and not, you know, actual #complexity. 😏 Apparently, the secret sauce is to ignore decades of mathematical rigor, and voilà, the Monte Carlo becomes a walk in the park! 🍸🤡
https://www.jeremykun.com/2015/04/06/markov-chain-monte-carlo-without-all-the-bullshit/ #MonteCarlo #Simplified #ExpertCritique #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.jeremykun.com/2015/04/06/markov-chain-monte-carlo-without-all-the-bullshit/ #MonteCarlo #Simplified #ExpertCritique #HackerNews #ngated
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without all the Bullshit
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 Biostatistics. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a technique for estimating by simulation the expectation of a statistic in a complex model.