{"id":69,"date":"2007-03-16T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2007-03-16T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T23:24:07","slug":"mountain-west-ruby-conference-simple-bayesian-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/mountain-west-ruby-conference-simple-bayesian-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"mtnwestruby: Simple Bayesian Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMountain West Ruby Conference: SBN<br \/>\n16 March 2007\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCarl Youngblood. Simple Bayesian Networks with Ruby.\n<\/p>\n<p>How do we handle uncertainty? Probablilty theory.<br \/>\nHow do we come up with probabilities? From experience, from beliefs &#8212; but either of these may not be accurate because of too few samples or skewed samples.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<code><br \/>\ngem install sbn<br \/>\n<\/code>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Ruby version is faster than his C++ version. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. &#8212; Donald Knuth\n<\/p>\n<p>\nxmlbif &#8211; the format that the bayes network is stored to and read from. Compatible with the Java Bayes package. See http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayesian_network\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe couldn&#8217;t get his SBN demonstration program working as expected. Sounds like SBN isn&#8217;t ready for prime time. Future improvements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Exact inference\n<li> True continuous variables\n<li> Etc.\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nhttp:\/\/www.pixelglow.com\/macstl\/\n<\/p>\n<p>\nQ: Why not do this in R, and connect R to Ruby?<br \/>\nA: Good idea.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI think it would be cool if someone showed how to connect SBN into <a href=\"http:\/\/cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com\/\">CruiseControl.rb<\/a> to identify what patterns of development and which developers are most likely to break a build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain West Ruby Conference: SBN 16 March 2007 Carl Youngblood. Simple Bayesian Networks with Ruby. How do we handle uncertainty? Probablilty theory. How do we come up with probabilities? From experience, from beliefs &#8212; but either of these may not be accurate because of too few samples or skewed samples. gem install sbn The Ruby &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/mountain-west-ruby-conference-simple-bayesian-networks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mtnwestruby: Simple Bayesian Networks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}