Repeat of "High Exposure"
January 30, 2009
I wrote about this in the blog for October 4, 2008. I'm therefore taking a vacation to watch my NetFlix movie tonight.
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This is a blog where a professor from Northeastern University's Math department posts mathematical comments on the television show "Numb3rs". To comment, write to bridger@neu.edu.
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January 30, 2009
I wrote about this in the blog for October 4, 2008. I'm therefore taking a vacation to watch my NetFlix movie tonight.
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January 18, 2009
Well, I'm finally getting around, a week late, to writing about the Viterbi algorithm (named after the computer-scientist Andrew Viterbi, who came up with it in the late 1960s).
As you probably know, an algorithm is a technical "recipe" for constructing something systematically, usually in a number of well-defined steps. In this case, it describes how to calculate "optimal" paths in what is known as a Hidden Markov Process (HMP)... continued »
January 3, 2009
Last Friday's Numb3rs was a repeat of the exciting episode "The Chinese Box" -- aired December 14, 2007. This was yet another show where either the math consultants made a bunch of mistakes or the writers garbled the technicalities... continued »