Vladimir_Nesov comments on Friedman's "Prediction vs. Explanation" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 September 2008 09:08:42AM 0 points [-]

(And, of course, first theory could be improved using the next 10 data points by Bayes' rule, which will give a candidate for being the second theory. This new theory can even disagree with the first on which value of particular data point is most likely.)