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Lumifer comments on Open Thread, Jul. 6 - Jul. 12, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 July 2015 08:09:05PM *  2 points [-]

A pretty awesome definition of the word "derp" in the context of Bayesian inference.

Followed by a suggested declension of "derp" as an irregular verb:

I can’t see this happening
You regularly restate your tight (low probability) prior
He herped a flerp of derp, the twerp