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PROBABILITY AND INTERFERENCE

© IGOR KLEINER 2014

[email protected]

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Multifaceted probability

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Big data, probability, image processing – my thesis

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Probability – “bad side”

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Easy question – unknown solutionRandom walk on chessboard

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Easy question – unknown solutionRandom walk on chessboard - possible

solution

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Easy question – known solutionSocks issue

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Easy question – known solutionSocks issue

solution

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Easy issue. Known results. Man destiny.“COT DEATH”

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Clark's first son died suddenly within a few weeks of his birth in September 1996, and in December 1998 her second died in a similar manner.

A month later, she was arrested and subsequently tried for the murder of both children.

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Clark's first son died suddenly within a few weeks of his birth in September 1996, and in December 1998 her second died in a similar manner.

A month later, she was arrested and subsequently tried for the murder of both children.

Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who testified that the chance of two children from an affluent family suffering sudden infant death syndrome was 1 in 73 million. He had arrived at this figure by squaring 1 in 8500, as being the likelihood of a cot death in similar circumstances.

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10.12 – M.A. seminar

Probabilistic methods in computer science

Analytic combinatorics

Big data