wedrifid comments on Log-odds (or logits) - Less Wrong

20 Post author: brilee 28 November 2011 01:11AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 28 November 2011 12:36:56PM 7 points [-]

base 2 - advantages, we can talk about N bytes' worth of evidences.

Wouldn't it be easier to talk about N bytes worth of evidence in base 256? Bits of evidence seems the more useful metric!