Re: [FRIAM] Main Page - Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations

2008-10-13 Thread Owen Densmore
Well, winter is besetting us, so it occurred to me that we might want to turn either the Krauth book (the subject), or your earlier excellent find: Information Theory, Inference Learning Algorithms David J. C. MacKay .. into a group reading at the sfComplex. Our Data Mining one was

Re: [FRIAM] Main Page - Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations

2008-10-11 Thread Robert Holmes
Owen - how's the book? I've been thinking about brushing up on my statistical mechanics - Robert On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently bought this book, and was delighted to see how complete a wiki was associated with it:

Re: [FRIAM] Main Page - Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations

2008-10-11 Thread Owen Densmore
On Oct 11, 2008, at 5:12 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: Owen - how's the book? I've been thinking about brushing up on my statistical mechanics - Robert I'm just getting started. My first observation is that its not your basic textbook. By that I mean it does not start with axioms and grind

[FRIAM] Main Page - Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations

2008-10-08 Thread Owen Densmore
I recently bought this book, and was delighted to see how complete a wiki was associated with it: http://www.smac.lps.ens.fr/index.php/Main_Page -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe