
Ep. 259 - New Years Thoughts
The Local Maximum with Max Sklar
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Is There a Relative Probability in Machine Learning?
The idea that hey I might not know The absolute probability of an event like this event has a has a 20% chance of happening but I know it's twice as likely as some other event is important in machine learning. It often matters only you know how likely are they relative to each other and not relative to some absolute outcome. And there's also a philosophical question in there because does absolute probability really exist? You know because there are always assumptions made and there are always Kind of they're kind of always backstop spaked in let me actually pull up this paper for a second because I know that I Iknow that I wrote something about that In the narrativeYou know what it's to it
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