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Bayes added that if he did not know enough to distinguish the position of the balls on his table, he would assume they were equally likely to fall anywhere on
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Probability theory was invented to help rich aristocrats win more money with their gambling. Pascal’s theory was extremely successful,
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Denis Zabaluev • 1 card
any formal system which contains arithmetic,
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By rights, Bayes’ rule should be named for someone else: a Frenchman, Pierre Simon Laplace, one of the most powerful mathematicians and scientists in history. To deal with an unprecedented torrent of data, Laplace discovered the rule on his own in 1774.