1SAVING SHIPWRECKED SAILORS WITH BAYES’ RULE
Sometime around 1740, an English Presbyterian minister named Thomas Bayes decided to mathematically prove the existence of God. His ingenious solution, now known as Bayes’ rule, would become one of the most successful statistical concepts of all time. But for 200 years it languished, largely ignored, because its tedious mathematics were impractical to do by hand. It took the invention of the modern computer for Bayes’ rule to reach its full potential. Now, thanks to our fast processors, it forms a key component of data science and machine learning.
Because Bayes’ rule shows us the mathematically correct ...
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