Thanks! I had never seen the alias method before and it is quite ingenious! - George
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Martin Mueller<mmuel...@cs.ualberta.ca> wrote: > If you want to take many samples from a fixed, or infrequently changing, > distribution, you can do it in O(1) time per sample, with O(n) initial setup > costs. This is quite clever and goes by the name of "alias method". > See http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/rnbookindex.html, page 107-111 > > For weighted patterns, the row sum method by Rémi is probably hard to beat. > It was discussed here a while ago. > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
