Say no to BAYES

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• edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Say no to statistics altogether. If we form a compact front, we can eradicate the disease of statistics from the face of the earth.

  As motivation, I’ll explain why statistics is only good for stealing:

  • Statistics is used to invest in the stock market, which is stealing by definition
  • Statistics is the foundation of modern AI, which as of now is mostly used for stealing work and intellectual property
  • There is no real statistical research, but every other paper is forced to have a little useless graph and a p-value made by some statistician, who steals fame from the real researchers who made the rest of the paper
  • Statistics is at the core of the gambling industry, which preys and steals from the elderly and economically weak
  • Every fucking formula for calculating probability needs to have a “mathematician’s” name even if it’s always sums and scaling that a toddler could come up with. Remembering those names steals neurons from students
  • Etcetera

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  • chgxvjh@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Is this a shit post?

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• e0qdk@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this a Bayeskisser meme? 😛️

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• 33550336@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I noticed that Soviet textbooks were frequentist e.g. Khintchin, while modern textbook by Murphy is Bayesian. The frequentist approach makes more sense to me.

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• Cattail@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I told a guy that a wide variance in data essentially means that results were random then he proceeded to explain p values and I’m like “yeah I’m sure the random values values came from nature”.

  Moral is p values kinda worth less than variance

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Are you saying you can’t determine a difference in aggregate statistics by performing more trials if the variance is high?

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• adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s like 50% of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s personality too, if you need more motivation to hate it.

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s literally a scene in HPMOR where Harry Potter, 11 years old, sits down and gives Draco Malfoy a lecture on Bayes’ theorem.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I maintain HPMOR is one of the greatest artistic works of our time.

      Imagine writing 122 chapters of fanfic where you establish your boy genius can do literally anything with magic, and then asking the community to “solve the best way to kill Voldemort” like you think they’re literally all too stupid to see what you’re doing and it works because they are that stupid.

      That’s an artist at work, the art in question just wasn’t literature.

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is the other 50% smugness and delusions of grandeur?

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