Blood-of-the-bayesian

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blood-of-the-bayesian

Title text: Also one about a werewolf who uses statistical methods to determine he's actually an insane man experiencing a prolonged psychotic episode.

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I have this idea for a movie called bayesian nampire.

A man is bitten by a vampire and becomes one.

"given the lack of evidence for vampires, and the fact that they are biologically implausible, he knows that the odds of his being a vampire are quite low."

"he spends the rest of the movie making observations and inferences."

Huh. No reflection most likely an optical illusion

I probably just think I lust for blood because I have b12 deficiency.

But given his low priors, he ends up dying before changing his mind."

I don't think the public is ready for this. People like sexy vampires.

That's funny. Does my body usually turn into ash when exposed to the noonday sun?

I should really keep a diary.

Rational skepticism is the new sexy!

What's your evidence

I never

For that claim?

Claimed to

Be sexy!

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