On the octopus Paul (1)
When I commented in the classroom the two first questions of the exercise of the octopus Paul (modelling its mind states with a DTMC), I misinterpreted the words “it is in state 1 just before…” as “it has been always in the state 1 before…”. Obviously, if we interpret the sentence correctly (“it is in state 1 at step n…”), we need to compute the transient probability distribution (after n steps), using the expression
I will publish here a solution for the exercise in the next days.