A different take on Bayes Rule

A little more intuition about the terms “posterior”, “prior”, and “likelihood” from a Machine Learning and incremental learning perspective.

Andy Patterson
Towards Data Science
5 min readAug 12, 2019

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Bayes Rule — θ refers to the model, D refers to a data point

Goal of this article

Most people reading this article have seen demonstrations of each probability distribution in Bayes Rule. Most people…

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I am a PhD student at the University of Alberta studying Statistical Machine Learning and focusing on Reinforcement Learning and Representation Learning.