[HN Gopher] The likelihood is dead, long live the likelihood ___________________________________________________________________ The likelihood is dead, long live the likelihood Author : nabla9 Score : 44 points Date : 2021-03-23 09:47 UTC (13 hours ago) (HTM) web link (ep-news.web.cern.ch) (TXT) w3m dump (ep-news.web.cern.ch) | bionhoward wrote: | Surprised they didn't mention energy-based models, which are a | fantastic option to handle intractable likelihoods. How is this | approach related to EBMs? | denysvitali wrote: | OT: if you (like me) always saw this kind of title but never | bothered too much to understand where it comes from, check this | [1] on Wikipedia. | | [1]: | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_...! | JorgeGT wrote: | The concept applied to particle physics, courtesy of Sir Terry | Pratchett: | | "The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is | monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He | reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and | tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a | king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir | instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some | elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do | this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid- | flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His | ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, | involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to | modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that | point, the bar closed." ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-23 23:01 UTC)