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That's how I would use it, anyway. Dreaded Anomaly Send a noteboard - 04/12/2011 10:41:01 PM
Log-odds is generally for modelling reality instead of hypothetical systems, then?


It's going to be useful in any system where you're trying to reason with limited information (and hopefully doing Bayesian updating). That could include a hypothetical like the two barrels full of marbles, when we're trying to figure out which barrel we have by withdrawing only a small sample of marbles. Obviously, in the simpler example with one barrel and absolutely known numbers of each type of marble, log-odds of withdrawing a red marble will go to infinity if we happen to withdraw all the green marbles first.
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Scooby Doo and Secular Humanism. Stephen - 02/12/2011 09:58:49 PM 814 Views
Paraphrasing G.K. Chestertons famous affirmation of Christianity to justify secular humanism, eh? Joel - 02/12/2011 11:02:54 PM 518 Views
Love has nothing to do with spirituality or the supernatural; there is no universal meaning of life. Dreaded Anomaly - 03/12/2011 04:33:13 AM 580 Views
Those are legitimate beliefs, but not proven facts. Joel - 03/12/2011 10:05:44 PM 593 Views
Quite a combination of impossible standards, artificial categories, and misunderstandings of science Dreaded Anomaly - 04/12/2011 02:53:44 AM 595 Views
I have a question about log-odds formulation. Ghavrel - 04/12/2011 06:36:02 AM 365 Views
It depends on if that's a realistic example or a toy example. Dreaded Anomaly - 04/12/2011 05:32:34 PM 412 Views
That's pretty much what I thought. I meant in a toy example. Ghavrel - 04/12/2011 10:17:47 PM 354 Views
That's how I would use it, anyway. Dreaded Anomaly - 04/12/2011 10:41:01 PM 363 Views
Indeed Joel - 05/12/2011 11:05:41 PM 540 Views
Re: Indeed Dreaded Anomaly - 08/12/2011 02:25:13 AM 550 Views
Scooby Doo is not about secular fucking humanism. It's a Gnostic allegory. Tom - 02/12/2011 11:57:37 PM 464 Views
I had all but forgotten that post, one of the first I read at wotmania. Joel - 03/12/2011 10:09:36 PM 396 Views
Comparing me to Santa selling crack has positively made my day. Thank you! Tom - 05/12/2011 01:50:54 AM 519 Views
Not you, Scooby. Joel - 05/12/2011 11:09:45 PM 383 Views
Great article. *NM* Dreaded Anomaly - 03/12/2011 04:57:50 AM 276 Views
Scooby Doo, Secular Humanism or Gnostic allegory? Danu - 04/12/2011 12:36:09 AM 758 Views
You are welcome *NM* Stephen - 04/12/2011 01:50:41 AM 151 Views
but if you think about it Yunalesca - 04/12/2011 01:03:58 PM 379 Views
Have you seen the Tim Minchin video/song? Camilla - 04/12/2011 06:36:48 PM 487 Views
Look at the thread above this one. *NM* Dreaded Anomaly - 04/12/2011 06:59:40 PM 171 Views
What Dreaded Anomaly said *NM* Stephen - 04/12/2011 08:01:52 PM 175 Views
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