Comment author: Regex 03 May 2015 12:45:26AM 1 point [-]

There appear to be two maps going on. I was directed to this one from the lesswrong IRC chat: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=z7pdD8yOaU8k.kfXVK4eolpdA I suspect we should consolidate them.

Comment author: ArvinJA 07 May 2015 10:44:27AM 1 point [-]

That map is actually specific to the IRC channel IIRC, as the channel is kind of it's own spin-off community in many ways according to some of the channel old-timers.

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 22 April 2015 06:58:10AM 3 points [-]

Does anyone have software or procedures they have found useful for evaluating large, hard, inference problems? I don't know what the right class of problem is. Mine is that I have several years and lots and lots of notes of symptoms a family member has exhibited, including subjective recollections all the way to MRIs, and I'd like to organize my thoughts and inferences around what common cause(s) might be, priors, weight of evidence, etc.

I plan to improvise, but I'd like to steal first.

Comment author: ArvinJA 24 April 2015 03:04:47PM 0 points [-]

I have a friend with an undiagnosed disease and am thinking about doing the same thing. One thing I've thought about is using a Bayesian Network as a tool, but then again, I'd have to be really careful about how I plug in data, and it would be good to know if there are other approaches to this as well. PM me if you find a good way to go about this.