Such a crucial skill set. The applications are remarkably broad: adaptive optics in astronomy, bayes nets in genetics, boson sampling in qc ... and of course DeepMind's AlphaGo ;)
For a more formal treatment, the projects in the MIT comp prob course are genuinely enjoyable to implement:
MITx 6.008.1x Computational Probability and Inference
For a more formal treatment, the projects in the MIT comp prob course are genuinely enjoyable to implement:
MITx 6.008.1x Computational Probability and Inference
https://www.edx.org/course/computational-probability-and-inf...