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Caspian comments on Michael Nielsen explains Judea Pearl's causality - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: gwern 24 January 2012 07:35PM

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Comment author: Caspian 26 January 2012 01:32:43AM 2 points [-]

Thanks. I hadn't read much on the subject before. Being able to go from that observational data and those causal assumptions to calculating precisely the expected results of an experiment you haven't carried out is amazing! I second your recommendation.