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Comment · 2 years ago
A (deep) NN is just a really complicated data model, the way one treats the estimation of its parameters and prediction of new data determines whether one is a Bayesian or a frequentist. The Bayesian assigns a distribution to the parameters and then conditions on the data to obtain a posterior distribution based on which a posterior predictive distribution is obtained for new data, while the frequentist treats parameters as fixed quantities and estimates them from the likelihood alone, e.g., with maximum likelihood (potentially using some hacks such as regularization, which themselves can be given a Bayesian interpretation).
Comment · 3 years ago
probably this article: Hoekstra, R., Morey, R.D., Rouder, J.N. et al. Robust misinterpretation of confidence intervals. Psychon Bull Rev 21, 1157–1164 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-013-0572-3

another good article on misinterpretation of p-values and confidence intervals is: Greenland, S., Senn, S.J., Rothman, K.J. et al. Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations. Eur J Epidemiol 31, 337–350 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-016-0149-3

Comment · 3 years ago
I agree that there are many things Fisher got wrong (eugenics, tobacco lobbying, etc.), but his contributions to statistics (e.g., maximum likelihood or ANOVA) and genetics are among the most fundamental of the 20th century.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Link's Awakening is such a weird but fascinating entry in the Zelda series. I was not surprised to learn that its story was directly influenced by Twin Peaks.
Comment · 4 years ago
Nintendo ninjas coming in 3, 2, 1,....
Comment · 4 years ago
try the following R code:

fisher.test(matrix(c(786, 298, 22999, 11156), nrow = 2))

#> Fisher's Exact Test for Count Data

#>

#>data: matrix(c(786, 298, 22999, 11156), nrow = 2)

#>p-value = 0.0003266

#>alternative hypothesis: true odds ratio is not equal to 1

#>95 percent confidence interval:

#> 1.116046 1.469612

#>sample estimates:

#>odds ratio

#> 1.279435

Comment · 4 years ago
Do you know about Claude Shannon's Master thesis?
Comment · 4 years ago
Guetzli means cookie in Swiss German, I wonder what inspired the devs to choose that name

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