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A comment on Bayes’ Theorem – What is it and what is it good for?.

Re:Bayes’ Theorem – What is it and what is it good for? by DennisP on Friday June 26, 2015 @07:50AM (#9783667)
> the Standard Model of particle physics explains much, much more than thunderstorms, and its rules could be written down in a few pages of programming code.

As a programmer who doesn't know advanced math, I'd really like to see that code, in literate form.

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Re:Bayes’ Theorem – What is it and what is it good for? by davidgerard on Friday June 26, 2015 @03:20PM (#9787104)
This is a Yudkowskyism, i.e. don't expect to see the code, or if you do then expect it to have obvious defects.
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