[adancalderon]

We can do math integration and solve radiation transport problems with Monte Carlo.

[acidburnNSA]

It was actually invented for this.

Open source radiation transport Monte Carlo code here if you'd like to play around:

https://github.com/openmc-dev/openmc

[eodhosb]

and ENIAC's first programs were Monte Carlo simulations.

[abhimanyue1998]

yep its beautiful how this can be done, its basically just taking the mean of values of function derived from random values from a uniform distribution of points in a specific range. Once done many times, we can approximate the integration value. Because E[X] = integration (f(u)p(u)du), p(u) will be 1 as the number is derived from a uniform distribution in the range of u.

[CyberDildonics]

Any integral you can sample can be solved with monte carlo methods. This doesn't really have anything to do with the link.

[spookystats]

Actually it does, because MC integration works due to the law of large numbers - exactly what is presented in the article.

[CyberDildonics]

Right, that's what is in the article, but just naming a random arbitrary use doesn't make any sense.

[brickteacup]

Some people actually find learning new things to be interesting and would therefore appreciate a comment giving them a new avenue of exploration to pursue.

[webdoodle]

Yep, several particle accelerator studies use it to model neutrino's.