[HN Gopher] Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Me...
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       Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Method (2023)
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2024-03-18 19:21 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | mturmon wrote:
       | And of course the Nick Metropolis mentioned in this story is the
       | first author of Metropolis, Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth, Teller, and
       | Teller (1953), which went a step farther and introduced MCMC. See
       | just above equation 4 of
       | (https://bayes.wustl.edu/Manual/EquationOfState.pdf).
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       | Farther down, below equation (6), we see the understatement:
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       | "The above argument, of course, does not specify how rapidly the
       | canonical distribution is reached."
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       | on which about 7 decades of further research would be done!
        
       | jcgrillo wrote:
       | > there are around 8 x 1067 ways to sort a deck of cards (a
       | number approaching the estimated number of atoms in the
       | observable universe
       | 
       | They surely mean 8x10^67
        
         | dekken_ wrote:
         | yes, 52! is as you suggest, either a typo or an issue in
         | rendering
        
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