This relates to an earlier question from back in June: Calculating expectation for a custom distribution in Mathematica I have a custom mixed distribution defined using a second custom distribution following along the lines discussed by @Sasha in a number of answers over the past year. Code defining the distributions follows: nDist /: CharacteristicFunction[nDist[a_, b_, … Read more
I need to generate a uniformly random point within a circle of radius R. I realize that by just picking a uniformly random angle in the interval [0 … 2π), and uniformly random radius in the interval (0 … R) I would end up with more points towards the center, since for two given radii, … Read more
How do I get the probability of a string being similar to another string in Python? I want to get a decimal value like 0.9 (meaning 90%) etc. Preferably with standard Python and library. e.g. similar(“Apple”,”Appel”) #would have a high prob. similar(“Apple”,”Mango”) #would have a lower prob. 15 Answers 15
Once again I was in a design review, and encountered the claim that the probability of a particular scenario was “less than the risk of cosmic rays” affecting the program, and it occurred to me that I didn’t have the faintest idea what that probability is. “Since 2-128 is 1 out of 340282366920938463463374607431768211456, I think … Read more
