Are Decisions Governed by “Free Will” or Algorithms

My girlfriend (Jenny) was posed the following question in her upper level Neuroscience course (paraphrased): Do humans have “free will” or are their actions predetermined by a system of algorithms encoded in their brain? Her response is the following: Ultimately, I believe that humans are prisoners to algorithmic systems that determine our choices – however,…

Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods

Generally Monte Carlo methods refer to: Any method which solves a problem by generating suitable random numbers and observing that fraction of the numbers obeying some property or properties. [1] In other words, a Monte Carlo method is any algorithm which obtain numerical results (an approximation) with random sampling. This is simple, straight forward, and…

BasicBookReader to AlphaBKZ – Business Model 1.0

I have been experimenting with a way to improve my Ebook reader in order to monetize it to pay for servers and allow users to purchase books. My solution is simple enough, I intend to create another Ebook reader which will be free to download, but you must pay a subscription fee for access to…