[HN Gopher] The likelihood is dead, long live the likelihood
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The likelihood is dead, long live the likelihood
Author : nabla9
Score : 44 points
Date : 2021-03-23 09:47 UTC (13 hours ago)
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| 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."
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