It's awful that you were downvoted in this thread when you were mostly right and the others were mostly wrong. I'm updating my estimate of LW's average intelligence downward.
-1Robi Rahman
No it doesn't! A coin biased towards heads can have p(H) = 0.6, p(T) = 0.4, and each flip can be an independent trial. The total results from many flips will then be Poisson distributed.
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Q: Why are Chromebooks good Bayesians?
A: Because they frequently update!
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Q: Why did the psychopathic utilitarian push a fat man in front of a trolley?
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