[HUMAN VOICE] "My PhD thesis: Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology" by Eric Neyman
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Support ongoing human narrations of LessWrong's curated posts: www.patreon.com/LWCurated In January, I defended my PhD thesis, which I called Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology. From the preface: For me as for most students, college was a time of exploration. I took many classes, read many academic and non-academic works, and tried my hand at a few research projects. Early in graduate school, I noticed a strong commonality among the questions that I had found particularly fascinating: most of them involved reasoning about knowledge, information, or uncertainty under constraints. I decided that this cluster of problems would be my primary academic focus. I settled on calling the cluster algorithmic Bayesian epistemology: all of the questions I was thinking about involved applying the "algorithmic lens" of theoretical computer science to problems of Bayesian epistemology. Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6dd4b4cAWQLDJEuHw/my-phd-thesis-algorithmic-bayesian-epistemology Narrated for LessWrong by Perrin Walker. Share feedback on this narration.
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