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Re:End-User Probabilistic Programming [pdf] by the8472 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:33PM (#20225297)
Moving from point estimates to distributions is great progress.

It reminds me of this great paper that highlights how much information we're losing when we're only looking at means or assume everything is normally distributed. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf

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Re:End-User Probabilistic Programming [pdf] by JadeNB on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @04:07PM (#20226835)
Abstract link: Sandberg, Drexler, and Ord - Dissolving the Fermi paradox (https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404).
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