About Me

ABOUT

Tom is barely here. Maybe not anywhere else, either. This blog is an attempt to make myself think about Bayesian thinking every day, hence the site name, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to post every day. In fact most of what I write gets immediately deleted, and most of the rest is saved to delete later. Still, I think it helps me think. I think about Big Issues, and possible tiny contributions, but mostly I think about thinking and why I so often disagree with the guys on lesswrong.com that I think are overall more likely to be less wrong than I am. Or then again, maybe not.

SPEAKING

Rarely. Silence is golden. Back when I was an author of some academic computer science papers I liked having a co-author who would do all the talking; when I wrote books on programming for programmers — ditto. My one non-coauthored book was “Equations, Models, and Programs: A Mathematical Introduction to Computer Science” (Prentice-Hall, back in the late 80s), and I suspect that title says a lot about me. I was not a good lecturer, either. Honest — I really tried.

GET IN TOUCH

Please don’t. Unless you’re family, or offline friend, in which case you have my number (mainly for texting) and email. I’d be delighted at finding comments, critical or helpful, but I’m not really writing this for you. OTOH, if what I write helps somebody else, that’s great.

WRITING:

Often, but not usually for anyone else to read.