You should have injected them with an emergency hit of information theory. Instant clarity.
-- Steve Gardner via mobile On 27 Jun 2013 02:08, "Kerim Aydin" <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: > > On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > > > I was blocking on the term "logician", that's a better choice. (Just > had a > > > flashback to the day in grad school when I became a committed Bayesian, > > > maybe I was channeling). > > > > Yeah man, you can get flashbacks from that sort of thing. Or so I've > heard, I > > wouldn't know. I mean, yeah I did do subjective priors once. But I didn't > > inhale. > > Man, once you get started you just can't stop. Problem is you actually > come to > decisions one day, the you realize that Uniform just ain't doing it > anymore and > you need a heavy weighting hit. I could tell you tales about colleagues > strung > out on gammas, paralyzed with uncertainty, chains never converging, begging > for "just one more" parameter... > > > >
