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Comment by loup-vaillant

6 years ago

I would hope that the software/ML engineers who wrote it knows about probability theory, and why the prior probability should be set at 0.0001% or so.

So that if we print 52% on the screen, that means we've already gathered like 30-bits of evidence (30 coin flips all coming up heads), at which point the suspicion would be real.

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