Let’s imagine a hypothetical situation. There’s an infection going round, and we want to predict the future severity of someone’s illness. There is a test that offers a good prediction. Let’s say the outcome of the test has a correlation of 0.78 with the patient's severity of infection. The problem with the test is that…
Wave Function Collapse is a procedural generation algorithm which produces images by arranging a collection of tiles according to rules about which tiles may be adjacent to each other tile, and relatively how frequently each tile should appear. The algorithm maintains, for each pixel of the output image, a probability distribution of the tiles which may be placed there. It repeatedly chooses a pixel to “collapse” - choosing a tile to use for that pixel based on its distribution. WFC gets its name from quantum physics. The goal of this post is to build an intuition for how and why the WFC algorithm works.
Not everybody left their jobs during the Great Resignation, and for those still on the job — from teachers to servers to office workers — the situation sucks.
Welcome to the course blog for the Oxford first year Groups and Group Actions course (Hilary and Trinity Terms 2017). I hope that this will be a useful resource to accompany the lectures, problems sheets and tutorials. Please check back after each lecture for a new post. In addition, I have a course page with some useful information, and…
Audio on Unix is a little zoo, there are so many acronyms for projects and APIs that it's easy to get lost. Let's tackle that issue! Most articles are confusing because they either use audio technical jargon, or because they barely scratch the surface and leave people clueless. A little knowledge can be dangerous.
In this blog post we will begin to look at Monte Carlo methods and how they can be used. These form the backbone of (essentially) all statistical computer modelling.