Laplace calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
Laplace calling to the underworld
Come out of the sample, you boys and girls
Laplace calling, now don’t look to us
Phony Bayesmania has bitten the dust
Laplace calling, see we ain’t got no swing
Except for the ring of that probability thing
The asymptote is coming, inference a farce
Meltdown expected, the data’s growin’ sparse
Stan stops running, but I have no fear
‘Cause Laplace is drowning, and I, I live by the prior
Laplace calling to the replication zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
Laplace calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath
Laplace calling and I don’t want to shout
But when we were talking I saw you nodding out
Laplace calling, see we ain’t got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eye
The asymptote’s coming, inference a farce
Stan stops running, the data’s growin’ sparse
A parallel era, but I have no fear
‘Cause Laplace is drowning, and I, I live by the prior
The asymptote is coming, inference a farce
Stan stops running, the data’s growin’ sparse
A parallel era, but I have no fear
‘Cause Laplace is drowning, and I, I live by the prior
Now get this
Laplace calling, yes, I was there, too
And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
Laplace calling, two hundred years hence
And after all this, won’t you have confidence?
I never felt so much exchangeable
(Apologies to you know who.)
Tomorrow’s post: Challenge of A/B testing in the presence of network and spillover effects
You live in a Stan down by the prior.
And here I thought this might be an announcement about maximum marginal likelihood. Alas.
Jonathan:
Alas indeed. I’d gladly trade my entire record collection for a working GMO implementation.
?GMO
Also I live in a hermetically sealed cell and know nothing about modern culture. Don’t get the song reference, and therefore to whom you are apologizing. Basically just lost on this post, if anyone can provide clarification, would be greatly appreciated.
Roy:
The reference is to culture. But not modern culture.
My idea of “modern” predates yours. Clash who? (the latter I do know – maybe because I played a lot fo pinball as a kid).
But I am still wondering what GMO stands for. Tried to duck duck go it (the other being a name I will not speak) but of course the first 1,000,000 or so hits involved genetic modification. Adding statistics or Bayesian or anything else didn’t make much of a difference.
Clash reference or no this would be a great rap
You may want to google the phrase “Quit holding out and draw another breath” which was directly quoted from the original song ;)
https://genius.com/The-clash-london-calling-lyrics
(Even a geezer like me can search on the internet!)
Maybe it was?
+ 3.755832584587 (actual survey results)
A different take?
Laplace calling to obsolete stats
Now war is declared and battle come down
Laplace calling to the under-educated
Come out of the gullibility, you boys and girls
Laplace calling, now don’t look to the naive
Phony Bayesmania has bitten the dust
Laplace calling, see we ain’t got no assurance
Except for the ring of that probability thing
A getting less wrong era, but I have no fear
‘Cause Laplace is drowning, and I, I live by the prior
Hey, we can all write some poetry on statistics. Aha!
Who write the verses in the main post? Andrew? Very good.
Sameera:
See links above. I did not write the words or the music! All I did was take the classic song and change a few words here and there.