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Feller’s anti-Bayesianism
I didn’t really realize that in Feller’s classic probability book he had the following dismissal of Bayesian statistics: Unfortunately Bayes’ rule has been somewhat discredited by metaphysical...
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Lossless compression via the memoizer
Via Andrew Gelman comes a link to deplump, a new compression tool. It runs the data through a predictive model (like most lossless compressors), but: Deplump compression technology is built on a...
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Allerton 2010 : the only talks I’ll blog about
Hey, lookit! I’m blogging about a conference somewhat near to when the conference happened! I’m just going to write about a few talks. This is mostly because I ended up not taking as many notes this...
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Bayesianism in philosophy
In an effort to get myself more philosophically informed with regards to probability and statistics, I’ve been reading about various notions and their discontents, such as symmetry, or Bayesianism, or...
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Banff blog
I figured I would blog about this week’s workshop at Banff in a more timely fashion. Due to the scheduling of flights out of Calgary, I will have to miss the last day of talks. The topics of people’s...
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