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Sour's Ear to Silk Purse

Nick Thompson
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