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MIT IDS.333 Risk and Decision Analysis, Fall 2021
Instructor: Richard de Neufville
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Uploaded 28-09-22

The overall perspective is that designers and managers need to balance need to recognize and balance the competing effects of Uncertainty, economies of scale, the discount rate, learning, and competitive gaming.

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MIT OpenCourseWare, the Massachusetts OER Advisory Council, and Open Education Global announce they will co-host the 2026 OE Global Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Uploaded 15-11-24

Speakers: Shiba Nemat-Nasser, Sharon Lin, Yvonne Ng, Robert J. Awkward, Amy Brand, Chris Bourg, Michel Anne-Frederic DeGraff, Hal Abelson, Sally Kornbluth, Gil Strang

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MIT IDS.333 Risk and Decision Analysis, Fall 2021
Instructor: Richard de Neufville
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ids-333-risk-and-decision-analysis-fall-2021/
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Uploaded 28-09-22

This case illustrates the potential poor performance of large investments in the face of uncertainty. Potential economies of scale missed and risk of 'white elephant' projects.

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Our guest for this episode, Lotfullah Andishmand, grew up in a village in rural Afghanistan where there was no internet access or electric lights. (He describes having had to navigate by moonlight to get to his uncle’s house for tutoring in chemistry.) In search of educational opportunity, he eventually moved to Kabul, where he discovered MIT OpenCourseWare’s lecture videos while studying electrical engineering at the university. Even there, though, the internet infrastructure was shaky enough that Lotfullah often resorted to downloading the course materials so he could study them at leisure when broadband wasn’t available. Now he’s living in India, pursuing an education in data science and artificial intelligence, but he hasn’t forgotten the difficulties he faced as a student in his own country. Recognizing that most of the available online educational resources are in English, a language few Afghans are fluent in, Lotfullah has used his computer skills to create an online learning platform offering educational materials in Persian. Someday, he hopes the platform will expand to include full online courses with direct interaction between instructors and students.

Uploaded 13-11-24

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6.0001 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python on MIT OpenCourseWare (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-0001-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-in-python-fall-2016/)
Hooshmand Lab online learning website (in Persian) (https://hooshmandlab.com/)

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MIT IDS.333 Risk and Decision Analysis, Fall 2021
Instructor: Richard de Neufville
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ids-333-risk-and-decision-analysis-fall-2021/
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62jwhTqp8_1kwrkDkxZhpQC

Uploaded 28-09-22

This video extends the analysis to several stages of choices, and illustrates how the analysis needs to revise probabilities depending on future observations of what actually happens.

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MIT 18.226 Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics, Fall 2024
Instructor: Yufei Zhao

Uploaded 06-11-24

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An important tail bound in probabilistic analysis. A Lipschitz function with independent random inputs is concentrated about its mean. Two applications: (1) coupon collector problem (2) chromatic number of a random graph.

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MIT IDS.333 Risk and Decision Analysis, Fall 2021
Instructor: Richard de Neufville
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ids-333-risk-and-decision-analysis-fall-2021/
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Uploaded 28-09-22

Video demonstrates the overall advantage of modular flexible designs over range of economies of scale. Smaller initial design preferable since capacity constraints limit upside potential.

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MIT 18.226 Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics, Fall 2024
Instructor: Yufei Zhao

Uploaded 06-11-24

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A simple application of the probabilistic method in combinatorics: a proof that every graph contains a large bipartite subgraph with at least half of the edges.

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MIT IDS.333 Risk and Decision Analysis, Fall 2021
Instructor: Richard de Neufville
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ids-333-risk-and-decision-analysis-fall-2021/
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62jwhTqp8_1kwrkDkxZhpQC

Uploaded 28-09-22

This video shows how Flexibility can reduce downside performance (e.g. by committing less at start) and take advantage of favorable situations (by being able to add capacity of functions or both).

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MIT 18.226 Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics, Fall 2024
Instructor: Yufei Zhao

Uploaded 06-11-24

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Two quick combinatorial applications of linearity of expectations: (1) the number of fixed points of a random permutation (2) Hamilton paths in tournaments.

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