Wednesday, January 23, 2013

100 years of Markov chains!


From Bekki: Did you know that today is the 100th anniversary of Markov chains?

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http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/markov

2 comments:

The Ghost of John Brown said...

In reading about just what a Markov chain is, I realized that whiskey contains the Markov property because no matter what chain of events precedes its consumption, what comes after depends only on the fact of its consumption. And consuming enough of it leads to memorylessness!

JohnJohn said...

Brilliant!