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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Book Review: The High Frontier
This was a a very sad book. The dreams and optimism of the post-apollo 1970s have collapsed completely. O’Neill was confidently predicting a significant space industry and lunar base by 2010 “at the latest” and of course that never happened. Our progress in space has largely stalled since the 1970s...
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