Johnicholas comments on An idea: Sticking Point Learning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Johnicholas 08 September 2009 06:00:12PM *  0 points [-]

I think this is an excellent idea, essentially a study group organized on the web for people who are interested in lesswrong-ish topics.

I'd be interested in learning how to write code that updates a conjugate prior as it sees data - in particular, conjugate priors which are actually structural models.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_prior

Comment author: cousin_it 08 September 2009 07:25:00PM *  0 points [-]

The Wikipedia article was quite clear, but I can't yet easily visualize a conjugate prior that's actually a structural model. (Is that the right link?) So your question is still beyond my understanding and it would seem that some other text is required.

Comment author: Johnicholas 08 September 2009 08:43:04PM 0 points [-]

Yes, me neither. :P