The secular Bayesian: Using belief distributions without really believing
The religious Bayesian My parents didn’t raise me in a religious tradition. It all started to change when a great scientist took me under his wing and taught me the teachings of Bayes. I travelled the world and spent 4 years in a Bayesian monastery in Cambridge, UK. This particular place practiced the nonparametric Bayesian doctrine. We were religious Bayesians. We looked at the world and all we saw the face of Bayes: if something worked, it did […]