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OpeninappHomeNotificationsListsStoriesWrite638KFollowersFollowHomeAboutEditors'PicksFeaturesDeepDivesGrowContributeBayesianMachineLearninginTowardsDataScienceMoreonMediumPedroMartinsdeBastos·Jun21HowtouseBayesianInferenceforpredictionsinPythonThebeautyofBayesianstatisticsis,atthesametime,oneofitsmostannoyingfeatures:weoftengetanswersintheformof“well,thenumberissomewherebetween…”Ifononehand,thismightbefrustratingtobusinessstrategistsorpolicymakerslookingforstraightforwardguidance,itisalso…BayesianStatistics13minreadReoNeo·May30AnIntroductiontoBayesianInferenceAmath+codeintroductiontoBayesianInferencemethods—MarkovChainMonteCarloandVariationalInference.—Inthepreviousblogpost,IgaveanintroductiontotheworldofBayesianStatistics.ItexaminedhowBayesianstatisticspresentsawaytoincorporateevidenceintoourmodeltoobtainabettermodel.Thisprocessisknownasinference,whichisfancymathematicalspeakforobtaining/approximatingtheposterior.BayesianStatistics8minreadSaremSeitz·Mar8BayesianMachineLearningandJuliaareamatchmadeinheavenTwoJulialibrariestomakeBayesianMachineLearningabreeze—AsIarguedinanearlierarticle,BayesianMachineLearningcanbequitepowerful.BuildingactualBayesianmodelsinPython,however,issometimesabitofahassle.Mostsolutionsthatyouwillfindonlineareeitherrelativelycomplexorrequirelearningyetanotherdomainspecificlanguage.Thelattercould…MachineLearning7minreadPatrickAltmeyer·Feb18Godeep,butalso…goBayesian!TrulyeffortlessBayesianDeepLearninginJulia—DeeplearninghasdominatedAIresearchinrecentyears—buthowmuchpromisedoesitreallyhold?ThatisverymuchanongoingandincreasinglypolarisingdebatethatyoucanfollowliveonTwitter.OnonesideyouhaveoptimistslikeIlyaSutskever,chiefscientistofOpenAI,whobelieves…BayesianMachineLearning8minreadSaremSeitz·Jan27WhenIsBayesianMachineLearningActuallyUseful?Personalthoughtsaboutasomewhatcontroversialparadigm—IntroductionWhenitcomestoBayesianMachineLearning,youlikelyeitherloveitorprefertostayatasafedistancefromanythingBayesian.Giventhatcurrentstate-of-the-artmodelshardlyevermentionBayesatall,thereisprobablyatleastsomerationalebehindthelatter.Ontheotherhand,manyhigh…BayesianMachineLearning11minreadAleksanderMolak·Nov26,2021ModelinguncertaintyinneuralnetworkswithTensorFlowProbabilityPart4:Goingfullyprobabilistic¹—ThisseriesisabriefintroductiontomodelinguncertaintyusingTensorFlowProbabilitylibrary.IwroteitasasupplementarymaterialtomyPyDataGlobal2021talkonuncertaintyestimationinneuralnetworks.Articlesintheseries:Part1:AnIntroductionPart2:AleatoricuncertaintyPart3:EpistemicuncertaintyPart4…BayesianMachineLearning5minreadAleksanderMolak·Nov19,2021ModelinguncertaintyinneuralnetworkswithTensorFlowProbabilityPart3:Epistemicuncertainty—ThisseriesisabriefintroductiontomodelinguncertaintyusingTensorFlowProbabilitylibrary.IwroteitasasupplementarymaterialtomyPyDataGlobal2021talkonuncertaintyestimationinneuralnetworks.Articlesintheseries:Part1:AnIntroductionPart2:AleatoricuncertaintyPart3:EpistemicuncertaintyPart4…Python7minreadPatrickAltmeyer·Nov15,2021BayesianLogisticRegressionFromscratchinJulialanguage—Ifyou’veeversearchedforevaluationmetricstoassessmodelaccuracy,chancesarethatyoufoundmanydifferentoptionstochoosefrom.Accuracyisinsomesensetheholygrailofpredictionsoit’snotatallsurprisingthatthemachinelearningcommunityspendsalottimethinkingaboutit…ProbabilisticProgramming8minreadAleksanderMolak·Nov12,2021ModelinguncertaintyinneuralnetworkswithTensorFlowProbabilityPart2:Aleatoricuncertainty—ThisseriesisabriefintroductiontomodelinguncertaintyusingTensorFlowProbabilitylibrary.IwroteitasasupplementarymaterialtomyPyDataGlobal2021talkonuncertaintyestimationinneuralnetworks.Articlesintheseries:Part1:AnIntroductionPart2:AleatoricuncertaintyPart3:EpistemicuncertaintyPart4…BayesianMachineLearning8minreadShowmoreAleksanderMolak·Nov3,2021ModelinguncertaintyinneuralnetworkswithTensorFlowProbabilityPart1:Anintroduction—ThisseriesisabriefintroductiontomodelinguncertaintyusingTensorFlowProbabilitylibrary.IwroteitasasupplementarymaterialtomyPyDataGlobal2021talkonuncertaintyestimationinneuralnetworks.Articlesintheseries:Part1:AnIntroductionPart2:AleatoricuncertaintyPart3:EpistemicuncertaintyPart4…Python6minreadGetstartedYourhomefordatascience.AMediumpublicationsharingconcepts,ideasandcodes.FollowConnectwithTowardsDataScienceEditorsTDSEditorsBuildingthemostvibrantdatasciencecommunityontheweb.Shareyourinsightsandprojectswithlike-mindedreaders:bit.ly/write-for-tdsFollowBenHubermanEditorinChief,TowardsDataScience.Previously:Editoriallead,Automattic&SeniorEditor,Longreads.FollowCaitlinKindigEditoratTowardsDataScience,she/herFollowSeeallSignupforTheVariableByTowardsDataScienceEveryThursday,theVariabledeliverstheverybestofTowardsDataScience:fromhands-ontutorialsandcutting-edgeresearchtooriginalfeaturesyoudon'twanttomiss. Takealook.GetthisnewsletterBysigningup,youwillcreateaMediumaccountifyoudon’talreadyhaveone.ReviewourPrivacyPolicyformoreinformationaboutourprivacypractices.Mediumsentyouanemailattocompleteyoursubscription.HelpStatusWritersBlogCaree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