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alexflint comments on Bayesianism in the face of unknowns - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: rstarkov 12 March 2011 08:54PM

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Comment author: alexflint 13 March 2011 12:28:00PM 0 points [-]

Hmm perhaps I mis-read the post. I was assuming he was picking a single coin and flipping it 100 times.

Comment author: othercriteria 13 March 2011 02:38:09PM 0 points [-]

The description of the coin flips having a Binomial(n=?,p) distribution, instead of a Bernoulli(p) distribution, might be a cause of the mis-reading.

Comment author: rstarkov 13 March 2011 08:07:10PM *  0 points [-]

Perhaps - obviously each coin is flipped just once, i.e. Binomial(n=1,p), which is the same thing as Bernoulli(p). I was trying to point out that for any other n it would work the same as a normal coin, if someone were to keep flipping it.