advanced probability theory - university of oxford
TRANSCRIPT
• William of Ockham: model selection
• Thomas Bayes: inference
• Claude Shannon: uncertainty and information
• Edwin Jaynes: logic and inference
(a is just a)
Belief update – learning – basis of modern ML
(Proof of this in Lecture 2)
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