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Open & Welcome Thread - November 2019

2nd Nov 2019

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If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it.

You can also make a shortform post.

And, if you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself.

Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are welcome.

If you want to explore the community more, I recommend reading the Library, checking recent Curated posts, seeing if there are any meetups in your area, and checking out the Getting Started section of the LessWrong FAQ.

The Open Thread sequence is here.

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John_Maxwell7y20

See that unbiased "prior-free" estimates must be mixtures of the (unbiased) estimates

I don't follow.

assembly of (higher-variance) estimates

What's an "assembly of estimates"?

treating the two as independent pieces of evidence

But they're distributions, not observations.