Public Policy Tipoffs Involving New Mexico Newsletter for Wednesday March 13, 2024 ( 1 items ) |
Santa Fe Institute: Study - Predicting Steps in a Random Process
SANTA FE, New Mexico, March 13 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release:
Tiny particles like pollen grains move constantly, pushed and pulled by environmental forces. To study this motion, physicists use a "random walk" model -- a system in which every step is determined by a random process. Random walks are useful for studying everything from tiny physics to diffusion to financial markets.
But what if the environment itself -- and not just the walker -- is random? "We
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