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| | In this week's New Yorker , Jonah Lehrer shows once again just how hard it is to do good science journalism if you are not yourself a scient...
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| | This is the story of what influenced me to become a Bayesian statistician after being trained as a classical frequentist statistician, and practicing only that mode of statistics for many years.
| | alexanderetz.com
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| | [This post has been updated and turned into a paper to be published in AMPPS] Much of the discussion in psychology surrounding Bayesian inference focuses on priors. Should we embrace priors, or should we be skeptical? When are Bayesian methods sensitive to specification of the prior, and when do the data effectively overwhelm it? Should...
| | austinrochford.com
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| While preparing the first in an upcoming series of posts on multi-armed bandits, I realized that a post diving deep on a simple Monte Carlo estimate of $\pi$ would be a useful companion, so here it is