Old world probability, new world technology

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Aron Schatz
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February 18, 2003
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I was reading over this article. I can't really explain it, but it is a good read.

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Yet the 18th-century clergyman's theories on probability have become a major part of the mathematical foundations of application development.

Search giant Google and Autonomy, a company that sells information retrieval tools, both employ Bayesian principles to provide likely (but technically never exact) results to data searches. Researchers are also using Bayesian models to determine correlations between specific symptoms and diseases, create personal robots, and develop artificially intelligent devices that "think" by doing what data and experience tell them to do.

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