Look up "graphical models" in the context of machine learning.

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On Nov 1, 2013 3:49 AM, "Darren Cook" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was reading this post "How would you explain Markov Chain Monte Carlo
> (MCMC) to a layperson?":
>   http://stats.stackexchange.com/q/165/5503
>
> The first few answers confused me, definitely not layperson-ready I
> thought! But then these two talked about it in the context of board
> games, so I kind of got the idea:
>   http://stats.stackexchange.com/a/438/5503
>   http://stats.stackexchange.com/a/12680/5503
>
> But this just sounded like Monte-Carlo simulations. Which bit is the
> "Markov-Chain"? I thought I'd post here in the hope that someone could
> explain Markov-Chain Monte Carlo in computer go terms. Are we already
> using Markov-Chains in MCTS, just by another name? If not, why not?
> (I.e. is it an idea that was tried but didn't work very well for reasons
> we don't understand very well? Or there something about the nature of
> the go rules that mean it cannot be done? etc.)
>
> Thanks,
> Darren
>
>
>
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>
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