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		Trasmatta 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Zizians and the rationalist death cult Math LARPing is very accurate. I'm so sick of them talking about Bayes and "adjusting priors", because the way they use it is so loose that it can be used to justify literally anything.

escapecharacter 11 months ago [–]

I was at a talk last week where a guy said “we should backprop into X” to mean “we should learn more about X and take it into account”.

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