Beren's Blog

I’ve just started reading this set of essays - http://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/Books/spacepower.pdf, which looks really interesting ( and reminded me that I need to do much more reading on Mahan), but before I start I thought I’d write up some of my own thoughts on space power and space combat, so as... [Read More]

I saw this in a used bookstore and it was so wonderfully obscure that I had to get it. Surprisingly it was actually pretty interesting. Georgia and the caucasus at that time were a meddly of warring factions and intrigue (as they have been throughout history). The general overview is... [Read More]

So, I just had a lecture on Monte-carlo sampling methods such as importance sampling, rejection-based sampling, and the beginnings of MCMC, and it was really interesting. Anyway, importance sampling is a pretty simple idea: [Read More]

I’ve read Massie’s other book on Peter the Great and thought it was good, so I decided to check this one out as well. [Read More]

These are just some additional things I noted which don’t fit into the main review: [Read More]