Bayesian – Page 4 – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions

By Andrew Fairless on November 30, 2021November 16, 2021

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-partial-credit-on-an-exam-of-true-false-questions/ How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions?By Terence Tao1 June, 2016Updates on my research and expository papers, discussion of open problems, and other maths-related topics.Continue readingWhat I Read: How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions

What I Read: Machine learning is just statistics + quantifier reversal

By Andrew Fairless on November 18, 2021November 16, 2021

https://jeremybernste.in/writing/ml-is-just-statistics Machine learning is just statistics + quantifier reversaljeremybernsteLos Angeles, 21 Oct 2021 “But in machine learning there’s a switcheroo—we select the sample of data first, and then we useContinue readingWhat I Read: Machine learning is just statistics + quantifier reversal

What I Read: Bayesian Media Mix Modeling

By Andrew Fairless on October 7, 2021September 21, 2021

Bayesian Media Mix Modeling for Marketing OptimizationBenjamin Vincent2021-09-17 “Fortunately, with Bayesian modeling, we can do better than this! So-called Media Mix Modelling (MMM) can estimate how effective each advertising channelContinue readingWhat I Read: Bayesian Media Mix Modeling

What I Read: Pathfinder, A parallel quasi-Newton algorithm

By Andrew Fairless on September 2, 2021August 17, 2021

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/08/10/pathfinder-a-parallel-quasi-newton-algorithm-for-reaching-regions-of-high-probability-mass/ Pathfinder: A parallel quasi-Newton algorithm for reaching regions of high probability massAndrew Gelman10 August 2021, 9:07 am “In the world of Stan, we see three roles for Pathfinder: (1)Continue readingWhat I Read: Pathfinder, A parallel quasi-Newton algorithm

What I Read: Diffusion Models

By Andrew Fairless on August 18, 2021July 22, 2021

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2021/07/11/diffusion-models.html#nice What are Diffusion Models?Jul 11, 2021Lilian Weng“Diffusion models are inspired by non-equilibrium thermodynamics…. Unlike VAE or flow models, diffusion models are learned with a fixed procedure and the latentContinue readingWhat I Read: Diffusion Models

What I Read: Parallel Bayesian Optimization

By Andrew Fairless on May 24, 2021May 1, 2021

https://medium.com/riskified-technology/from-sequential-to-parallel-a-story-about-parallel-bayesian-hyperparameter-optimization-f124ed29f556 From Sequential to Parallel, a story about Bayesian Hyperparameter OptimizationAndres AsaraviciusApr 26 “The goal of this process is to find the best set of parameters, and our goal wasContinue readingWhat I Read: Parallel Bayesian Optimization

What I Read: Bayesian and frequentist results

By Andrew Fairless on May 21, 2021May 1, 2021

https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2021/04/25/bayesian-and-frequentist-results-are-not-the-same-ever/ Bayesian and frequentist results are not the same, everApril 25, 2021Allen Downey “You can’t compare results from Bayesian and frequentist methods because the results are different kinds of things….Continue readingWhat I Read: Bayesian and frequentist results

What I Read: Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling at Scale

By Andrew Fairless on April 2, 2021March 21, 2021

https://florianwilhelm.info/2020/10/bayesian_hierarchical_modelling_at_scale/ Finally! Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling at ScaleFlorian WilhelmDate Oct. 01, 2020 “In this blog post, I want to draw your attention to the somewhat dusty Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling. Modern techniquesContinue readingWhat I Read: Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling at Scale

What I Read: Neural Text Generation

By Andrew Fairless on March 11, 2021March 7, 2021

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2021/01/02/controllable-neural-text-generation.html Controllable Neural Text GenerationJan 2, 2021Lilian Weng “How to steer a powerful unconditioned language model? In this post, we will delve into several approaches for controlled content generation withContinue readingWhat I Read: Neural Text Generation

What I Watch: The medical test paradox, Can redesigning Bayes rule help?

By Andrew Fairless on February 28, 2021February 27, 2021

https://youtu.be/lG4VkPoG3ko The medical test paradox: Can redesigning Bayes rule help?Dec 22, 20203Blue1Brown “In short, an accurate test is not necessarily a predictive test… of all of the places for mathContinue readingWhat I Watch: The medical test paradox, Can redesigning Bayes rule help?

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