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Agreed - that book is phenomenal at communicating the theory and mindset of Bayesian analysis. My favorite quote from the lectures - "Statistics should be subbo
by perrygeo 3y ago
Agreed - that book is phenomenal at communicating the theory and mindset of Bayesian analysis. My favorite quote from the lectures - "Statistics should be subbordinate to Science." A very healthy emphasis on logic and proper model design - there will be no shoving data into black boxes!
R is a good language for this but he uses a library of convenience functions that are not on CRAN and are effectively just for educational purposes. So even if you want to stick with R, you'll need to translate your code into production-ready libraries anyway. There are several nearly-complete translations based on other R packages as well as ported to Julia and Python.
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoOr you could just put his code into production (source: I worked at a super successful gaming startup that had this code scattered all over their repo). They had a bunch of other code problems too, but that was definitely the weirdest thing I saw in my (very short) stay there.
- perrygeo 3y agoI thought the whole paragraph about "This package is never going to be on CRAN" was a warning label :-) I agree, it works beautifully and performance is ok for desktop use.