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Being Bayesian

Being Bayesian

FromData Skeptic


Being Bayesian

FromData Skeptic

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Oct 26, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This episode explores the root concept of what it is to be Bayesian: describing knowledge of a system probabilistically, having an appropriate prior probability, know how to weigh new evidence, and following Bayes's rule to compute the revised distribution. We present this concept in a few different contexts but primarily focus on how our bird Yoshi sends signals about her food preferences. Like many animals, Yoshi is a complex creature whose preferences cannot easily be summarized by a straightforward utility function the way they might in a textbook reinforcement learning problem. Her preferences are sequential, conditional, and evolving. We may not always know what our bird is thinking, but we have some good indicators that give us clues.
Released:
Oct 26, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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