David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

Month: March 2023

Getting into data science

A while back I had the pleasure to address a team of user experience researchers at YouTube, and I got asked for a few resources that could help someone pretty good at science, math, and programming who wanted to get into data science. Here’s the list I gave. These have worked for me in the […]

The law of total probability applied to a conditional probability

Dear future self, I’ve just lost (again) about half an hour of my life trying to find a vaguely remembered formula that generalizes the law of total probability to the case of conditional probabilities. Here it is. You’re welcome. The law of total probability says that if you can decompose the set of possible events […]

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