EPISODE · Apr 25, 2024 · 8H 5M
Everything Is Predictable by Tom Chivers
from Experience Into A Riveting Full Audiobook Before Bedtime. · host Tom Chivers
https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/57490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Is Predictable Author: Tom Chivers Narrator: Tom Chivers Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins Release date: 04-25-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 6 ratings Genres: Mathematics Publisher's Summary: Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Like most research into probability at the time, his theorem - independently discovered a few years later by Pierre-Simon Laplace, the great French mathematician - was mainly seen as relevant to games of chance, like dice and cards. But its implications soon became clear, affecting fields as diverse as medicine, law and artificial intelligence.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/57490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Is Predictable Author: Tom Chivers Narrator: Tom Chivers Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins Release date: 04-25-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 6 ratings Genres: Mathematics Publisher's Summary: Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Like most research into probability at the time, his theorem - independently discovered a few years later by Pierre-Simon Laplace, the great French mathematician - was mainly seen as relevant to games of chance, like dice and cards. But its implications soon became clear, affecting fields as diverse as medicine, law and artificial intelligence.
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