I saw this in a used bookstore and it was so wonderfully obscure that I had to get it. Surprisingly it was actually pretty interesting. Georgia and the caucasus at that time were a meddly of warring factions and intrigue (as they have been throughout history). The general overview is...
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Bayesian Optimization and Importance Sampling
So, I just had a lecture on Monte-carlo sampling methods such as importance sampling, rejection-based sampling, and the beginnings of MCMC, and it was really interesting. Anyway, importance sampling is a pretty simple idea:
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Book Review: Catherine the Great by Robert K Massie
I’ve read Massie’s other book on Peter the Great and thought it was good, so I decided to check this one out as well.
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The High Frontier: Addendums
These are just some additional things I noted which don’t fit into the main review:
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Reflections on Friedrich List's National System of Political Economy
So, while procrastinating I read an article about the supposed ‘neomercantilism’ that china is using and other south east asian countries such as South Korea used to industrialise. This sent me into a massive spiral of researching the ‘mercantilism debate’ which eventually culminated in me deciding to read Friedrich List’s...
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