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		comboy on Sept 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked ... The good stuff is here[1]. But it sucks that the paper[2] is from 1927 and I still have to pay to get access to it.. 1. https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating... 2. Probable Inference, the Law of Succession, and Statistical Inference Edwin B. Wilson

ssl232 on Sept 14, 2018 | [–]

While I wholeheartedly agree about academic paywalls sucking, the paper PDF was literally the first result on DuckDuckGo [1, 2], at least for me!

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Probable+Inference%2C+the+Law+of+S...

[2] http://www.barestatistics.nl/uploads/1/1/7/9/11797954/wilson...

Agnu on Sept 14, 2018 | [–]

The paper is available on Sci-Hub.

dmos62 on Sept 14, 2018 | [–]

Also Library Genesis (http://libgen.io/) should be on everyone's list of places where papers (and books) can be found for free.

yesenadam on Sept 15, 2018 | | [–]

http://libgen.io/scimag/index.php?s=Probable%20Inference,%20...

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