How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple ...

An international team of researchers have successfully derived a quantum version of Bayes’ rule, a cornerstone of probability theory ...

One example is a wave in shallow water. Though governed by classical hydrodynamics, shallow water waves can have waveforms ...

Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; general methodological problems of science, of induction and probability, ...

J. Neyman, Outline of a Theory of Statistical Estimation Based on the Classical Theory of Probability, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.

A classical algorithm solves the boson sampling problem for 30 bosons with standard computing hardware, suggesting that a much larger experimental effort will be needed to reach a regime where ...