Episode 105 - Joys of Bayes, Belief Networks, and Aerodynamics with Sophie Carr

Today’s guest is Sophie Carr, a mathematician who specializes in Bayesian Inference and Aerodynamics. Max asks about her analogies for wrapping one’s head around Bayesian Inference, and applying it in the real world.

Max also follows up on Encryption laws.

About Sophie Carr

Sophie Carr is the founder of the award winning company Bays Consulting. Having grown up building Lego spaceships she studied aeronautical engineering before discovering Bayesian Belief Networks which has led to a career she loves working in statistics and analytics – essentially make a living out of finding patterns in data sets.   Sophie has never lost her fascination with Bayes Theorem or aeroplanes both of which helped her become The World’s Most Interesting Mathematician in 2019. 

Bays Consulting, on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram
Sophie on Twitter

Sophie’s PHD Thesis: Investigating the Applicability of Bayesian Networks to the Analysis of Military Intelligence

Links

Institute of Mathematics: Worlds Most Interesting Mathematician 2019
Sophie on Bernoulli’s Equation
Sophie on Navier Stokes
Applying Bayes Rule to Pregnancy Tests

Book: Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference by Judea Pearl
Example from the Episode with Sherlock Holmes is on Page 49
2.2.4 Multiple Causes and Explaining Away

Wikipedia: Guess Who
I haven’t read this article, but a mathematical treatment of Guess Who exists
Towards Data Science: Bayesian Belief Networks

Computerphile: Could we ban Encryption?
Numberphile: Illegal Numbers
Naomi Brockwell: New Year’s Privacy Detox

Related Episodes

Episode 104 on Digital Privacy
Episode 89 with Alex Andorra on Bayesian Stats and Political Trends
Episode 78 on Bayesian Thinking
Episode 1 on Applying Bayes to the News
Episode 0 with my first attempt to explain Bayes