Probability
New Books in the History of Science
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It Rains or It Doesn't Rain?
I was really struck by in the book this either rains or it doesn't, which was a very, that was like very helpful to me. And we've sort of come to accept probability as this sort of this clear thing that obviously exists in the world and you look under it it's not actually case. So there's this at the beginning of the 20th century, especially this guy Ronald Fisher develops what we know as frequent statistics. For Bayesian statistics probability is subjective measure of belief so it's based on what you think is like that.
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