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Academically Interesting
Personal blog · jsteinhardt.wordpress.comaimathscience
Academically Interesting is a personal blog at jsteinhardt.wordpress.com about ai, math and science. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “A Fervent Defense of Frequentist Statistics”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Academically Interesting for its take on the Bayesian vs. frequentist debate. The one comment uses it to discuss how both approaches can be framed as minimising a loss function in decision-making.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Where I exposit about whatever interests me
Most-linked posts?
- A Fervent Defense of Frequentist Statistics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-13
What Hacker News says?
Don't think that's quite what the author was getting at. A "frequentist" who makes a decision based on a p-value or confidence interval, and a "Bayesian" who makes a decision based on a posterior or predictive probability distribution, can both be viewed as making a decision according to a procedure that minimizes some statistic of a loss function. Both of these broad families of methods are diverse, but to generali…
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on “Bayesian vs. frequentist: squabbling among the ignorant”Submitted Nobody Understands Probability as a story · 84 points
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