All the Christopher Hitchens I can get my hands on. Even as a political journalist and literary critic—someone who dealt entirely in words, not numbers, and had no understanding of science, despite being a deeply appreciative fan of it—he sincerely did his best to think and write clearly and to pass this value on. It’s also reminding me to put care into the shape of every sentence. Pity he appeared never to have heard of Bayes …
I think he had spoken of Bayes in some talk. I guessed he didn’t understand the mathematics at all, but had a general concept of how an “inverse probability” worked.
All the Christopher Hitchens I can get my hands on. Even as a political journalist and literary critic—someone who dealt entirely in words, not numbers, and had no understanding of science, despite being a deeply appreciative fan of it—he sincerely did his best to think and write clearly and to pass this value on. It’s also reminding me to put care into the shape of every sentence. Pity he appeared never to have heard of Bayes …
I think he had spoken of Bayes in some talk. I guessed he didn’t understand the mathematics at all, but had a general concept of how an “inverse probability” worked.