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The Angry Statistician
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The Angry Statistician is a personal blog at angrystatistician.blogspot.com about math and data. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite these posts on Bayes' theorem and Bayesian inference, using the Monty Hall problem as an example. The comments do not evaluate the writing itself.
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What Hacker News says?
One of the best examples of the idea of Bayes is the Monte Hall problem. It is a good example of how prior probability (3 unopened doors) can lead to a more clear posterior-host selects an unopened door with a bad prize and you are asked whether to stay with the unopened door you chose or switch to the remaining open door. Turns out via Bayes it’s better to switch doors because you have more information now. Tons of…
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on “Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]”Submitted Sergey Brin, Please Pick up your Paychecks as a story · 220 points
HN discussionjust to chime in. The monty-hall problem is a pure math (probability-theory) and not statistics-excersize, since we know all the probabilities beforehand and don't estimate. It's very important to distinguish between bayesian inference and the bayesian theorem. The bayesian theorem can be proven and therefore must be true (if we accept the axioms). Bayesian inference has some real philosophical problems, since we of…
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on “Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science”Submitted Mining the First 3.5 Million California Unclaimed Property Records as a story · 34 points
HN discussionI came up with my own algorithm and found several speedups, but I haven't written an expanded article yet. I've implemented it in Julia, but Julia's built-in factoring is (unfortunately) far slower than Sage's. A short preliminary article: http://angrystatistician.blogspot.com/2014/08/learn-this-one... Here's the Sage code: https://github.com/octonion/puzzles/tree/master/product-sum I'd be curious to see the speed o…
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on “The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems [pdf]”Submitted Young Alan Turing and the Arctangent as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding the Best Book Quotes: Power Ranking Goodreads as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learn One Weird Trick and Easily Solve the Product-Sum Problem as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mixed Models in R – Bigger, Faster, Stronger as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Enormous Number of Kilograms as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gambling to Optimize Expected Median Bankroll as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Power Rankings: Looking at a Very Simple Method as a story · 1 points
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