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Neologisms

Yesterday at the pub I was involved in a very extended (civil and remarkable productive) dialog about morality and society. We touch on many topics in the course of discussion, one of them being the difference between reason and faith. And I had to come up with a new word. Firstly, we agreed on the [...]

Probability Programming

Yesterday a very interesting speaker, Eric Hehner, gave a talk at the graduate seminar:

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A Probability Perspective

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This talk could be called “probability meets programming”. It draws together four perspectives that contribute to a new understanding of probability and solving problems involving probability. The first is the Subjective Bayesian perspective that probability is [...]