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Why square errors?
Aprillion (Peter Hozák)
24d
10
88
Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence
TheMcDouglas
2mo
16
16
The highest-probability outcome can be out of distribution
tailcalled
1mo
5
120
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life
Scott Alexander
4y
37
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A Butterfly's View of Probability
Gabriel Wu
6mo
17
40
Trust in Bayes
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
28
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Two Dark Side Statistics Papers
Scott Alexander
8y
4
37
Visualizing the power of multiple step selection processes in JS: Galton's bean machine
gwern
3y
2
54
Book Review of 5 Applied Bayesian Statistics Books
Jan Christian Refsgaard
1y
6
119
Simpson's Paradox
bentarm
11y
58
17
Most likely is not likely
Malmesbury
10mo
2
40
Quadratic models and (un)falsified data
Bucky
2y
8
66
The dangers of zero and one
PhilGoetz
9y
68
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The impact you might have working on AI safety
Fabien Roger
6mo
1
50
Formalization as suspension of intuition
adamShimi
9d
18
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Meaningful things are those the universe possesses a semantics for
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
8d
14
5
Slick hyperfinite Ramsey theory proof
Alok Singh
1d
2
-11
Can we get around Godel's Incompleteness theorems and Turing undecidable problems via infinite computers?
Noosphere89
1mo
12
3
Why are probabilities represented as real numbers instead of rational numbers?
Yaakov T
1mo
9
80
The Goldbach conjecture is probably correct; so was Fermat's last theorem
Stuart_Armstrong
2y
27
26
The Case for Frequentism: Why Bayesian Probability is Fundamentally Unsound and What Science Does Instead
lsusr
8mo
29
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Why do som many things break in a 2 element set?
Alok Singh
2mo
3
-4
Fixed point theory (locally (α,β,ψ) dominated contractive condition)
muzammil
3mo
3
15
The generalized Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz theorem.
Donald Hobson
4mo
4
49
My Kind of Reflection
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
23
103
Category Theory Without The Baggage
johnswentworth
2y
49
40
Why does category theory exist?
Ben Pace
3y
10
74
Probability, knowledge, and meta-probability
David_Chapman
9y
73