I’m teaching Bayes’ theorem this week in my discrete math course, and that reminds me of an interesting puzzle related to the “argument by design” for God’s existence. T… more →
QuomodocumqueTom Schenk wrote 2 weeks ago: From 2007 International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Science of Biology in Exeter … more →
Eric Lightborn wrote 3 months ago: Wikipedia calls this a classic paradox of elementary probability theory. Who was this Bertrand? Take … more →
ssaqld wrote 3 months ago: Members are advised of the following statistics talks taking place this week at UQ. Thanks to Ian Wo … more →
vicentemalave wrote 4 months ago: I’m also reading R.Duncan Luce’s classic “Response Times” book about reactio … more →
spiralmatt wrote 5 months ago: Ed Jaynes was an American physicist who was born in 1922 and who carried on working pretty much unt … more →
Fahdi wrote 6 months ago: Introduction to My Future-Thesis Wuah, for those of you who are expert on this stuff, please guide m … more →
JSE wrote 8 months ago: I’m teaching Bayes’ theorem this week in my discrete math course, and that reminds me of … more →
JSE wrote 8 months ago: Humanities at Wisconsin are said to be underfunded and demoralized, but you’d never know it fr … more →
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Terribly Beautiful wrote 11 months ago: Not through an extraordinary spiritual gift, not through momentary inspiration, unexpected and uniqu … more →
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JSE wrote 1 year ago: Actually, the example of Bayesian reasoning in the post below doesn’t really give the flavor o … more →
JSE wrote 1 year ago: Our friend Josh Tenenbaum, a psychologist at M.I.T., is in town to plenarize this Thursday at 3pm at … more →
Seb wrote 1 year ago: About a week ago Subtraction made a long post complaining about the main problem of feed aggregators … more →
carlosscheidegger wrote 1 year ago: Say you are about to hire someone. During the hiring process, you might ask them to pass a drug test … more →
Euglossine Bee wrote 1 year ago: Ok, that’s what they call it… I guess that’s a more provocative than “the top 100 books on Facebook … more →
gm wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been trying to finish this post since middle of December, but after about 4 almost comple … more →
Tim van Gelder wrote 1 year ago: Gambling on tomorrow – provocative piece from The Economist on how climate models have to incl … more →
Thom wrote 4 years ago: Steve Eichert talks about Bayesian filtering as more than just spam prevention: What would be cool i … more →