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Modeling Particles in Atomic Bombs

Author
[email protected] (Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone)
Published
Mon 06 Jul 2015
Episode Link
https://soundcloud.com/linear-digressions/modeling-particles-in-atomic-bombs

In a fun historical journey, Katie and Ben explore the history of the Manhattan Project, discuss the difficulties in modeling particle movement in atomic bombs with only punch-card computers and ingenuity, and eventually come to present-day uses of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm... mentioning Solitaire along the way.

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