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aaronblohowiak on Aug 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Design Secrets For Engineers

Bayesian reasoning is actually "given the Prior X, what is the likelihood that Y is true" ?

What you are referring to is the far more simplistic Boolean reasoning.

nl on Aug 25, 2011 [–]

Sorry, you are right - I was lazy when I wrote that.

I should have stated it like this: given "engineer" in title AND posted on HN what is the likelihood that it refers to a Software Engineer.

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