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fumeux_fumetoday at 5:11 AM0 repliesview on HN

As a data scientist, I find applied Bayesian methods to be incredibly straightforward for most of the common problems we see like A/B testing and online measuring of parameters. I dislike that people usually first introduce Bayesian methods theoretically, which can be a lot for beginners to wrap their head around. Why not just start from the blissful elegance of updating your parameter's prior distribution with your observed data to magically get your parameter's estimate?