This Wednesday, I (Bob) will be giving a talk at the brand-spanking new Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery at the University of Chicago. When: 2 PM, Wed 18 Dec 2009 Where: Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery (KCBD) 10th Floor, South...

I introduced measure theory in my last post, Measure Theory in Two Definitions. With that out of the way, we can move on to probability measures and random variables. Probability Measure A probability measure is a measure taking values in the closed...

Measure theory generalizes the notion of length, area and volume to a very general topological setting. It also forms the basis of probability theory. Definition 1 A -algebra is a set of sets which is closed under difference, if , is closed...

I (Bob) love Time Out New York’s feature Public Eye. Each week, it’s a different New Yorker, usually in some kind of wild outfit. This week they’re featuring our Breck, Alias-i’s self-described “president, founder, whatever — chief janitor”. ...

In my last post on Probabilistic Edit Channel Models, I tried to motivate a properly calculated marginal probability of an observation (e.g., a read) given a source (e.g., a reference sequence). In this post, I’ll show you how to build a properly...