
Ep. 236 - Alzheimer's Research Setback and Facebook News Demoted
The Local Maximum with Max Sklar
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Using a Bata Distribution to Determine the Weight of a Coin
If you have a completely symmetric problem, youus the principle of indifference and say that they're equally likely. But when should you be suspicious of this? First of all, if the number of of events, you have a very high dimensional case, there's more likely to be structure in there. And therre not equal probability. So i would say be cautious in using these uniform categorical distributions unless you're dealing with very straightforward casino type games. The only basian step is going from complete ignorance to what the dye is going to end up as. I don't know what it is fore i roll the die. After i roll thedie, i know exactly what happened. There
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