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HonoreDB comments on Comic endorsing Bayesian statistics - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: grouchymusicologist 06 April 2011 05:29AM

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Comment author: HonoreDB 06 April 2011 06:48:13PM 0 points [-]

It's an excellent comic in that you can see room for improvement in every step. With better hypothesis generation, we control the number of false positives by controlling the number of false hypotheses--maybe they should have just kept playing Minecraft?