Another Saskatoon meetup at the same place and time as the last one: Broadway Roaster on 8th street (not on broadway!) at 1:00 in the afternoon.
A lot of the time beliefs are thought to be either true or false [1]. However this is rarely the case in practice! Instead of assigning beliefs a boolean value of true or false we can think of beliefs on a scale which goes from true to false and all possible values in between. This week we'll go over how to use this idea of continuous beliefs along with Bayesian reasoning to 'update' our beliefs when new evidence presents itself.
Discussion article for the meetup : Saskatoon - Gauging the strength of evidence and Bayesian reasoning.
WHEN: 23 November 2013 01:00:00PM (-0600)
WHERE: 2318 8th St E, Saskatoon, SK
Another Saskatoon meetup at the same place and time as the last one: Broadway Roaster on 8th street (not on broadway!) at 1:00 in the afternoon.
A lot of the time beliefs are thought to be either true or false [1]. However this is rarely the case in practice! Instead of assigning beliefs a boolean value of true or false we can think of beliefs on a scale which goes from true to false and all possible values in between. This week we'll go over how to use this idea of continuous beliefs along with Bayesian reasoning to 'update' our beliefs when new evidence presents itself.
More info here: http://www.meetup.com/Saskatoon-Rationalists/
Hope to see you there!
[1] Hopefully this statement made your “false dichotomy detector” start ringing!
Discussion article for the meetup : Saskatoon - Gauging the strength of evidence and Bayesian reasoning.