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


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


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


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