fitzwatermellow
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Comment · 10 years ago
SPR's Roger Shawyer Explaining The Basic Science behind #EmDrive:
Comment · 10 years ago
Dedicated probabilistic modeling environments are also gaining ground and may become standard in the near future.
The holy grail is something like: feed in some data, or parameters and have an algorithm generate the corresponding correct Bayesian inference and posterior distribution. It's very easy for scientists, even with years of knowledge and experience, to implement things incorrectly ;)
Check out Stan and Figaro:
https://www.cra.com/technical-expertise/probabilistic-modeli...
Comment · 10 years ago
Can also recommend The Crown on Netflix, with American actor John Lithgow masterfully interpreting the Old British Bulldog. There's even an entire episode devoted to the affair of Sutherland's portrait commemorating Churchill's 80th birthday, considered one of the art world's great lost masterpieces:
Secret of Winston Churchill's unpopular Sutherland portrait revealed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/winston-churchill/11730850/S...