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Aside: What do you do for a living?


LinkedIn in his HN user page.

> Variational Bayesian methods and deep learning for affective neuroscience, using probabilistic programming systems ProbTorch and Pyro.

It does sound like he's in for a rough time, epistemologically speaking.


You'd be surprised how easily the witch-doctory passes for real science ;-)! Kidding, kidding, our empirical side actually has to be at least as rigorous as the other statistical methods used in neuroscience, usually more so. That's what they keep us around for!


Twenty years ago I would have been surprised. :-)




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