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Edwin Thompson Jaynes was a prominent bayesian mathematician and the author of Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.

Don’t be afraid of the thou­sand-year-old vampire

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E.T. Jaynes Prob­a­bil­ity The­ory: The logic of Science I

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Prob­a­bil­ity The­ory: The Logic of Science, Jaynes

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Draft of Ed­win Jaynes’ “Prob­a­bil­ity The­ory: The Logic of Science” on­line, with lost chap­ter 30

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Help with a deriva­tion in chap­ter 18 of Jaynes PT:LoS?

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The cen­tral limit the­o­rem in terms of convolutions

Maxwell PetersonNov 21, 2020, 4:09 AM
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De­mys­tify­ing the Se­cond Law of Thermodynamics

Eigil RischelNov 22, 2020, 1:52 PM
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Trust in Bayes

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 29, 2008, 11:12 PM
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Prob­a­bil­ity the­ory im­plies Oc­cam’s razor

Maxwell PetersonDec 18, 2020, 7:48 AM
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The Gen­er­al­ized Product Rule

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[Question] Jay­ne­sian in­ter­pre­ta­tion—How does “es­ti­mat­ing prob­a­bil­ities” make sense?

Haziq MuhammadJul 21, 2021, 9:36 PM
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[Question] Do Bayesi­ans like Bayesian model Aver­ag­ing?

Haziq MuhammadAug 2, 2021, 12:24 PM
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[Question] Halpern’s pa­per—A re­fu­ta­tion of Cox’s the­o­rem?

Haziq MuhammadAug 11, 2021, 9:25 AM
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[Question] Jaynes-Cox Prob­a­bil­ity: Are plau­si­bil­ities ob­jec­tive?

Haziq MuhammadAug 12, 2021, 2:23 PM
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[Question] Has Van Horn fixed Cox’s the­o­rem?

Haziq MuhammadAug 29, 2021, 6:36 PM
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[Question] Is LessWrong dead with­out Cox’s the­o­rem?

Haziq MuhammadSep 4, 2021, 5:45 AM
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Fre­quen­tist prac­tice in­cor­po­rates prior in­for­ma­tion all the time

Maxwell PetersonNov 7, 2020, 8:43 PM
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[Question] Why are prob­a­bil­ities rep­re­sented as real num­bers in­stead of ra­tio­nal num­bers?

Yaakov TOct 27, 2022, 11:23 AM
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Mir­a­cles and why not to be­lieve them

mruwnikNov 16, 2022, 12:07 PM
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The Logic of Science: 2.2

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E.T. Jaynes and Hugh Everett—in­cludes a pre­vi­ously un­pub­lished re­view by Jaynes of a pub­lished short ver­sion of Everett’s dissertation

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