Tom Chivers (2)
Author of Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
For other authors named Tom Chivers, see the disambiguation page.
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- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Liverpool (degree|Philosophy)
King's College London Centre of Medical Law and Ethics (Master's) - Occupations
- science writer
journalist - Short biography
- Science writer and journalist, and SFF author with debut short story The Reward of Loyalty published 2023 (tweet).
- Nationality
- England
- Places of residence
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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The book starts with a history of Thomas Bayes - I knew about Bayesian Theorem, but didn't know anything about Bayes himself, definitely didn't know that the theorem itself is about 200 years old.
It continues to talk about the differences between Frequentists and Bayesian statisticians and how each of them approach a problem at hand. It was intriguing to realize "what p-value informs you". It was also very insightful to see how the author connects AI, schizophrenia, evolution and inner show more working of our brain to Bayesian thinking.
"All life is trying to reduce the difference between what they predict and what they experience because the brain hates prediction error and wants to minimize it." - absolutely relatable.
My respect towards Bayes has increased n-fold after reading this book. Credit also to the author to put forth a perplexing subject like Statistics in simple language. show less
It continues to talk about the differences between Frequentists and Bayesian statisticians and how each of them approach a problem at hand. It was intriguing to realize "what p-value informs you". It was also very insightful to see how the author connects AI, schizophrenia, evolution and inner show more working of our brain to Bayesian thinking.
"All life is trying to reduce the difference between what they predict and what they experience because the brain hates prediction error and wants to minimize it." - absolutely relatable.
My respect towards Bayes has increased n-fold after reading this book. Credit also to the author to put forth a perplexing subject like Statistics in simple language. show less
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