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Re:Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without Jargon on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:28AM (#9332606)
Let me make this easier:

Lets plug a bunch of numbers into a function and sum them all up. That sum is the integral of the function that we plugged all the numbers into. That's the Monte Carlo method part.

To get the Markov chain part, we just randomly produce a new number based on the one we just got out of the function, to plug back into the equation.

Re:Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without Jargon on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:21AM (#9332587)
"Sometimes I get the idea that people in CS want to "get all this machine learning/data science stuff" without understanding the principles."

Thought I was the only one.