marc comments on Techniques for probability estimates - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Yvain 04 January 2011 11:38PM

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Comment author: marc 06 January 2011 03:35:26PM 1 point [-]

This isn't hugely relevant to the post, but LessWrong doesn't really provide a means for a time-sensitive link dump, and it seems a shame to miss the opportunity to promote an excellent site for a slight lack of functionality.

For any cricket fans that have been enjoying the Ashes, here is a very readable description of Bayesian statistics applied to cricket batting averages.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 January 2011 04:13:22PM 0 points [-]

That seems like a good thing to post in Discussion. Also, to the extent that it's about the math more than the particular matches, it isn't all that time sensitive.