Information Processing

This talk gives the history of neural networks in the framework of Bayesian inference. Deep learning is (so far) quite empirical in nature...

This is a nice historical article that connects a number of key figures in the history of probability and information theory. See also Frequ...

A draft paper by Harvard graduate student James Lee (student of Steve Pinker; I'd love to post the paper here but don't know yet if ...

I recommend this nice discussion of climate change on Andrew Gelman's blog. Physicist Phil, the guest-author of the post, gives his pri...

E.T. Jaynes, although a physicist, was one of the great 20th century proponents of Bayesian thinking. See here for a wealth of information,...

Noted Berkeley statistician David Freedman recently passed away . I recommend the essay below if you are interested in the argument between...