Posts Tagged as ‘networkx’

October 16, 2009

Dense-Subset Break-the-Bank Challenge

I’m preparing for my first global travel for global health, but the net is paying attention to a paper that I think I’ll like, and I want to mention it briefly before I fly.
Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products is 27 pages of serious TCS, but it is so obviously applicable that people [...]

August 14, 2009

August is Too-Many-Projects Month

(Tap… tap… tap… is this thing on? Good.)
July was vacation month, where I went on a glorious bike tour of the Oregon/California coast, and learned definitively that I don’t like biking on the side of a highway all day. Don’t worry, I escaped in Coos Bay and took trains and buses between Eugene, [...]

September 19, 2008

MCMC: Running a chain, making it look easy

As I was saying in my last post, I’ve been getting interested in actually running Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms, instead of trying to prove things about their asymptotic performance. It seems like the “stats” way to do this is to use R and WinBUGS, but I’ve always thought that R programming looks messy. [...]