I just finished presenting my recent paper on stochastic verification at RSS
2011. There is a conference version online
[http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss07/p41.html], with a journal article to
come later.
I have spent the last several months doing applied math, culminating in a
submission of a paper to a robotics conference
[http://www.roboticsconference.org/] (although culminating might be the wrong
word, since
Humans are very good at correctly generalizing rules across categories (at
least, compared to computers). In this post I will examine mechanisms that would
allow us to do this in a reasonably rigorous
What happens when you are uncertain about observations you made? For instance,
you remember something happening, but you don't remember who did it. Or you
remember some fact you read on
The goal of this post is to give an overview of Bayesian statistics as well as
to correct errors about probability that even mathematically sophisticated
people commonly make. Hopefully by the end of