Thomas Bayes: The Reverend Who Taught Us to Update Our Beliefs with Data
How do you update your opinion when you receive new evidence? If your answer is ‘with data,’ congratulations: you’ve been practicing Bayesianism for 260 years without knowing it. This is the story of an 18th-century reverend whose posthumous essay laid the foundation for machine learning, spam filters, medical diagnosis, and the probabilistic models we use today to forecast demand.