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Re:The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go t... by adancalderon on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:32AM (#35938302)
We can do math integration and solve radiation transport problems with Monte Carlo.
Re:The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go t... by webdoodle on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:09AM (#35938572)
Yep, several particle accelerator studies use it to model neutrino's.
Re:The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go t... by acidburnNSA on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:55AM (#35938899)
It was actually invented for this.

Open source radiation transport Monte Carlo code here if you'd like to play around:

https://github.com/openmc-dev/openmc

Re:The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go t... by eodhosb on Sunday May 14, 2023 @03:52PM (#35940852)
and ENIAC's first programs were Monte Carlo simulations.
Re:The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go t... by CyberDildonics on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:43PM (#35939255)
Any integral you can sample can be solved with monte carlo methods. This doesn't really have anything to do with the link.
Re:The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go t... by spookystats on Sunday May 14, 2023 @01:00PM (#35939371)
Actually it does, because MC integration works due to the law of large numbers - exactly what is presented in the article.
Re:The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go t... by CyberDildonics on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:26PM (#35941111)
Right, that's what is in the article, but just naming a random arbitrary use doesn't make any sense.
Re:The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go t... by brickteacup on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:40PM (#35943652)
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Re:The Law of Large Numbers, or Why It Is a Bad Idea to Go t... by abhimanyue1998 on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:36PM (#35943626)
yep its beautiful how this can be done, its basically just taking the mean of values of function derived from random values from a uniform distribution of points in a specific range. Once done many times, we can approximate the integration value. Because E[X] = integration (f(u)p(u)du), p(u) will be 1 as the number is derived from a uniform distribution in the range of u.