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Re:Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine Learning by antipaul on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:36PM (#23038274)
Are those really the best starts for "Bayesian statistics"?

Especially the first 2 are rather the standard "intro to ML textbooks", with a frequentist focus (ISL may even have zero Bayesian stuff - Naive Bayes is not "Bayesian" – while ESL still has maybe 10% bayesian content if that).

Instead, I would suggest the following for learning Bayesian methods, especially given the HN crowd: https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...

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Re:Introduction to Support Vector Machines in Machine Learning by uoaei on Thursday April 30, 2020 @10:18PM (#23038481)
You make a good point. It's been a while since I flipped through them, they just come up in lots of discussions on this topic. I agree that the series you link to is really great for PPL and Bayesian methods. You may find that the library upon which it's based (PyMC3) is built on top of Theano, which has been abandoned and deprecated. PyMC4 is around the corner and uses TensorFlow Probability. Early, informal reports say it's 10x faster.
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