I am wondering if, instead of running MCMC and hoping that it has "mixed" ("achieved stationarity"), there are approaches based on computing (or approximating) the principal left eigenvector of the transition matrix ( Read more... )

Ken Binmore - Making Decisions in Large Worlds is a very interesting philosophical paper, which attacks the "school" of "Bayesianites", by which I think he means those who subscribe some type of extreme Bayesianism.

I'm very interested in modeling how people draw maps from memory. They use many kinds of information regarding distances between cities, angles along coastlines and borders, shapes and sizes of areas, etc, that somehow must come together coherently (and hopefully approximately correctly ( Read more... )