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Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics

The Life Scientific

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Did You Join Minority Cults?

In the rest of life, I don't join minority cults. There was an awful competitive streak there here. People would say to me: 'Why are you working for that idiot Lindley?' But in a perverse way, it stimulated me. And my supervisor, Dennis Lindley, was a very special person because he was bearing the brunt of all this. He rose above it. So everybody thought, oh, he's converted and spoiled these PhD students. You believe this would be a good way to go. Yeah. It sounds like you had a better experience at Oxford than Cambridge. Well, I'd found something I actually was back being one of the best at. The 200th

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