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A comment on Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms? by ewwertee2454 on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:06PM (#13518545)
Metropolis-Hastings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%E2%80%93Hastings_al...

http://michaeljflynn.net/2015/06/01/my-favorite-algorithm-me...

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms? by useanalias on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:52AM (#13518995)
This is possibly my favorite as well. MCMC in general is pretty magical.
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