Gunther,
Thank you I will. I have down loaded it and have it at the ready. Right
now I am entertaining myself by reading the IRS Manual on tax free
educational organizations. Who is it that said that the law is an ass?
More like an ugly baroque cathedral? Or a coral reef? encrustation upon
encrustation.
Anyway. Off topic. thanks for the help on Bayes. Come and get your
coffee any time. We would love to have you visit.
Nick
> [Original Message]
> From: G?nther Greindl <guenther.greindl at gmail.com>
> To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Date: 2/19/2008 1:16:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Sour's Ear to Silk Purse
>
> Hi Nicholas,
>
> > Thanks for these comments. Are you actually a person who could make me
> > understand Bayes intuitively, a little bit?
>
> Work through this:
>
http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html>
> I did that a couple of years ago and now I don't know how I could ever
> _not_ have understood Bayes intuitively.
>
> No kidding - Eliezer's tutorial is great (play around with the slides).
>
> Of course, this does not mean that the problem of the priors has been
> solved ;-))
>
> Regards,
> G?nther
>
> --
> G?nther Greindl
> Department of Philosophy of Science
> University of Vienna
> guenther.greindl at univie.ac.at
>
http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/>
> Blog:
http://dao.complexitystudies.org/> Site:
http://www.complexitystudies.org