timtyler comments on Information theory and the symmetry of updating beliefs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 22 November 2011 09:52:03PM *  3 points [-]

It would be interesting to know if they have any particular justification for picking the natural logarithm or if it was simply a matter of using what first came to mind. Other likely candidates seem to be:

  • log base 2 (a.k.a. bits)
  • 10 * log base 10 (a.k.a. decibels)
  • log base 10
Comment author: timtyler 22 November 2011 09:57:05PM *  1 point [-]

Roll on the log odds standardisation effort - by the sound of it!