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... Probability Theory: The Logic Of Science by Edwin Jaynes Probability Theory: The Logic Of Science By E T Jaynes The material available from this page is a pdf version of Jaynes' book ... will become the conventional probability theory of the future History: The present form of this work is the result of an evolutionary growth over many years My interest in probability theory was ... ROBUSTNESS The Bayesian Basis of it All 2401 The Occam Factors 2402 Chapter 25 MARGINALIZATION THEORY Chapter 26 IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION Chapter 27 COMMUNICATION THEORY Origins of the Theory 2701 The Noiseless...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 11:59

... past the point where I paid it any mind So I sat and waited while she finished Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them ... left blank words Mastering the Craft of Science Writing ideas into Elise Hancock Foreword by Robert Kanigel THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Baltimore & London For my father, who would have been ... Index 147 ©2003 The Johns Hopkins University Press Foreword © 2003 Robert Kanigel All rights reserved Published 2003 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The Johns Hopkins...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... interest in it Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t They must, though, be able to learn science, be ... intelligent questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Elise was a member of this breed; she was an ... count, too But rather of a rich sensibility of respect For language For ideas For people For the surprising and the deliciously weird in us all And most of all, respect for the world, the endlessly...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

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Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 21:20

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Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

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Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

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Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

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Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20

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Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

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Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

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Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

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Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

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Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... all kinds of things with this theory The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron They should be connected together, if this theory was right, by a certain ... part, the best scientists agree on the current best theory, which they recognize because, well, it fits It answers the most questions with the greatest precision and the fewest loose ends There’s ... it’s off by percent.” Then I remember the percent It was like a prediction for me: I went home and got this theory that says the neutron decay should be off by percent, and they tell me the next...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15

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Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 04:15

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Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 10:15

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Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 00:15

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Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:18

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