Bayes Quotes & Sayings

The primary contention is that man consists of body, soul and spirit and that each of these needs to be acknowledged and satisfied in the experience of architecture as in every other way. — Kenneth Bayes

Say your boss has been taking longer than usual to respond to your e-mails. Many people would take that as a sign that their star is falling because if your star is falling, the chances are high that your boss will respond to your e-mails more slowly than before. But your boss might be slower in responding because she is unusually busy or her mother is ill. And so the chances that your star is falling if she is taking longer to respond are much lower than the chances that your boss will respond more slowly if your star is falling. The appeal of many conspiracy theories depends on the misunderstanding of this logic. That is, it depends on confusing the probability that a series of events would happen if it were the product of a huge conspiracy with the probability that a huge conspiracy exists if a series of events occurs. The effect on the probability that an event will occur if or given that other events occur is what Bayes's theory is all about. To — Leonard Mlodinow

In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined. — Nate Silver

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them. — Dominic Monaghan

Steiner's teachings begin and end with man but in between is humankind, the earth, the cosmos. Architecture is the same: it too begins and ends with individual man, with everything else within it. — Kenneth Bayes

I know logically that I can live without him, but loving him has become such an integral, necessary part of my life; I am not sure I could stop, even if we parted. — Anna Bayes

Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing. — Nate Silver

The word 'teach' suddenly conveys a sense of menace that is foreign to me. — Anna Bayes

Believable has nothing to do with true — Paul Acampora

A Maddox boy will take you all the way to the edge, but if you go with him, he'll follow you anywhere ... — Jamie McGuire

I just want mind-boggling sex tonight, but I don't think you can beat my vibrator. — Anna Bayes

If a guy can't even handle my words, I don't think he can handle me as a person. — Anna Bayes

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life. — James Russell Lowell

I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Way of Bayes is also an imprecise art, at least the way I'm holding forth upon it. These blog posts are still fumbling attempts to put into words lessons that would be better taught by experience. But at least there's underlying math, plus experimental evidence from cognitive psychology on how humans actually think. Maybe that will be enough to cross the stratospherically high threshold required for a discipline that lets you actually get it right, instead of just constraining you into interesting new mistakes. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense
Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry — Tamora Pierce

No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness
happiness on my own terms. — Anna Bayes

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis. — Bill Bryson

The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it. — Kenneth Bayes

Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward. — Kirsten Hubbard

The first time I saw her - my God - it was like I'd never seen another woman in all my life. It was the way she walked that caught my eye. She moved like water: fluid, determined. Everything else blended together in a blur and all I saw was her. The only solid in all that color. — Tarryn Fisher

I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting. — Barbara De Angelis

If you hold there is a 100 percent probability that God exists, or a 0 percent probability, then under Bayes's theorem, no amount of evidence could persuade you otherwise. — Nate Silver

Revenge is not sweet; it is gloomy and a waste of time. — Anna Bayes

In memory of Robert Harris, sometime Major-General of His Majesty's forces before Plymouth, who was buried hereunder the 29th day of June 1655. And of Honor Harris his sister, who was likewise here underneath buried, the 17th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1653.
Loyall and stout; they Crime this
this thy praise.
Thou'rt here with Honour laid
though without Bayes. — Daphne Du Maurier

People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not evolved much. — Anna Bayes

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so. — Anna Bayes

When people ask me what's the best thing I like, my head starts scrambling and I just can't think of anything. Depending on the day, I might say this or that. I really don't have any specific thing that I like better than others. — Michel Auder

This new thought has turned into a mantra repeating itself in my head: I am a daring, fun, sexy woman. — Anna Bayes

Bayes's theorem and that looks like this: People who understand Bayes's theorem can use it to work out complex problems involving probability distributions - or inverse probabilities, as they are sometimes called. — Bill Bryson

I had a dream that Mark Wahlberg and his wife were our neighbors and we had dance parties in our living room and drank wine from Solo cups. I remember being confused as to why they lived in a regular neighborhood, or why it didn't seem to make anyone awkward that I had Marky's Calvin ads up in the living room. — Crystal Woods

We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live. — Kristina Adams