Tim Bouma on Nostr: The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to ...
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. — Martin Gardner
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