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bayeslives
10y ago
I've been using both Windows (work) and Linux (home) on the desktop for many years. I far prefer Linux (I tried many distros, settled on Arch and Mint now). Package management and window management is way better in Linux. To name just
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bayeslives
10y ago
Correct. I use Linux at home. Ubuntu and Mint have nice rendering OOTB, Arch got that great with the Infinality package. OSX also has decent rendering (albeit too fat for my taste), Windows' subpixelrendering + matching fonts used to g
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bayeslives
10y ago
Good points. The NHST thing was invented by Neyman & Pearson as a tool for decision making, not for finding the truth.95% confidence means your intervals will be not to far off, in 95% of all samples. Perhaps this is nice fur Quality As
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bayeslives
10y ago
Bayes did not "solve induction". If we define induction as telling which specific model generated this data: that is not possible. Countless models could in theory generate our data. What we need is some restriction. Like a prior.