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+++ title = "Markov lesson: Transition Probabilities and Matrices" priority = 7 status = "done" ticket_type = "task" dependencies = [] +++ Write Section 3 of edu/markov.md: 'Transition Probabilities and Matrices'\n\nLearning objectives:\n- Formally define the transition matrix P where P[i][j] = P(next=j | current=i)\n- Explain the stochastic matrix constraint: all rows sum to 1, all entries ≥ 0\n- Show how to compute the distribution after k steps: π₀ Pᵏ\n- Work through a 2×2 weather-model example by hand\n\nContent to produce:\n- 35 paragraphs of prose\n- A worked numeric example (2-state weather chain)\n- LaTeX-style or plain-text matrix notation\n- No code in this section\n\nTarget: replace the stub in edu/markov.md §3