IntroductionPurpose of this bookThis book depicts the path from Bayesian inference to deep learning as a single long-form technical volume. There is one central theme: how can we handle uncertainty in ...
Among the books in my 'to-read' pile that I don't remember when I added, there was a book called 'The Grand Unified Theory of ...
It’s estimated that human adults make about 35,000 decisions a day — the percentage of good decisions depends on the adult. These choices can be as banal as deciding to roll or crumple toilet paper or ...
Bayes' theorem, also called Bayes' rule or Bayesian theorem, is a mathematical formula used to determine the conditional probability of events. The theorem uses the power of statistics and probability ...
The notion of free energy in inference derives from a mathematical method of inverting a probability distribution. If the brain knows the probability of its sensations (given a “generative model of ...
Nate Silver, baseball statistician turned political analyst, gained a lot of attention during the 2012 United States elections when he successfully predicted the outcome of the presidential vote in ...
Low-frequency infragravity waves shape shorelines, but exactly how they contribute is mysterious. A technique from Bayesian probability theory might change that.