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This lecture covers the concept of Gibbs sampling and its application in simulated annealing, focusing on detailed balance, MMSE estimation, marginal overlap, and Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. The instructor explains the process of obtaining new configurations by picking random indexes and updating them, emphasizing the importance of achieving equilibrium in the sampling process.