On rereading this just now, I just had to laugh. Two reasons I suppose. First of all, the article is really about Markov chains (my original title was just that), and I spend just 3 paragraphs right at the end talking about speech recognition. I think my editor was a smidge too enthusiastic about the speech recognition part. Secondly I note that I talk about random walks in a couple of places – even Gambler’s Ruin – a topic I skirted just recently here. It certainly sounds like I knew back then what I couldn’t work out a few days ago; so maybe there’s something to all this forgetting stuff as you grow older. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a few months. When I buy the current issue, I'll publish the article from the issue a year ago. Since I've now got September's issue (and have had it for a couple of weeks), here's September 2008's article. […]
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