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by bigearmouse
February 6th, 2007, 3:41 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Catching a criminal in a cave
Replies: 25
Views: 87304

Catching a criminal in a cave

<t>This is a Markov chain and every state is recurrent. We can quickly get the transition matrix P. At equilibrium, the probability that the criminal stay at a certain state i is determinent and is written as a vector v, by solving v=vP, we can get v and find out the probability that he stays at a c...
by bigearmouse
February 6th, 2007, 1:34 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Consecutive N heads
Replies: 5
Views: 85008

Consecutive N heads

quick calculation gives(1-p^N)/(1-p)/p^N
by bigearmouse
December 4th, 2006, 2:55 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: An old tree (problem) with a new twist
Replies: 5
Views: 88692

An old tree (problem) with a new twist

Binormial tree with stopping strategy. Using backtrack to get the expected payoff.I guess.
by bigearmouse
July 30th, 2006, 2:33 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Publications in resume
Replies: 3
Views: 97131

Publications in resume

Not famous journals. Just several common papers which are irrelevant. Not so sure whether I should put a list of the titles there since the interviewer may know nothing about my research.
by bigearmouse
July 29th, 2006, 1:54 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Publications in resume
Replies: 3
Views: 97131

Publications in resume

For an entry level job, do I need to list the recent journal publications in the resume? My papers are totally irrelevant to quant though.Thanks.