{"id":187578,"date":"2024-04-17T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/predictive-power-unleashed-by-mits-advanced-bayesian-optimization"},"modified":"2024-04-17T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T01:23:43","slug":"predictive-power-unleashed-by-mits-advanced-bayesian-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/predictive-power-unleashed-by-mits-advanced-bayesian-optimization","title":{"rendered":"Predictive Power Unleashed by MIT\u2019s Advanced Bayesian Optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/predictive-power-unleashed-by-mits-advanced-bayesian-optimization2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An easy-to-use technique could assist everyone from economists to sports analysts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pollsters trying to predict presidential election results and physicists searching for distant exoplanets have at least one thing in common: They often use a tried-and-true scientific technique called Bayesian inference.<\/p>\n<p>Bayesian inference allows these scientists to effectively estimate some unknown parameter \u2014 like the winner of an election \u2014 from data such as poll results. But Bayesian inference can be slow, sometimes consuming weeks or even months of computation time or requiring a researcher to spend hours deriving tedious equations by hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy-to-use technique could assist everyone from economists to sports analysts. Pollsters trying to predict presidential election results and physicists searching for distant exoplanets have at least one thing in common: They often use a tried-and-true scientific technique called Bayesian inference. Bayesian inference allows these scientists to effectively estimate some unknown parameter \u2014 like the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}