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Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics

The Life Scientific

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Is There a Difference Between Mathematics and Science?

I was bad at art and all the subjects were counted when it came to be who was top of the class. My nearest rival in all the other subjects was a brilliant artist and I resented that he could draw and I couldn't. The one thing you couldn't do was defining things. That doesn't matter how well you were, or the other subjects. So I'm afraid I spent at least as much time in economics, sitting at the back in economics lectures, then going to mathematics. I wasn't a diligent student. It turned slightly into perhaps wanting his son to do all the things that he never had the chance to do because of the war. Which was slightly oppressive. He

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