
Everything Is Predictable


the role of probabilities and values
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
The main point is this: while probabilities encode our beliefs about a static world, causality tells us whether and how probabilities change when the world changes, be it by intervention or by act of imagination.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why


Bayesian model lets you calculate just how likely it is that a particular hypothesis is true, given the data.