Comments for Katie Howgate

Comment on Hypergraphs – not just a cool name! by Expanders make very non-intuitive hypergraphs – cubetown

Expanders make very non-intuitive hypergraphs – cubetown — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 03:44:35 +0000

[…] begin with a definition. A hypergraph is a set of vertices and edge set . Here is a great blog post introducing the basics of hypergraph structure, as well as some of their […]

Comment on Fraud in the 2020 US Election?!?! by Benford’s Law and Trump vs. Biden 2020 Chicago results – Matthew van Eerde's web log

Fri, 20 May 2022 18:28:53 +0000

[…] Image credit: Katie Howgate […]

Comment on A Bayesian Approach To Finding Lost Objects by JP

JP — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:47:32 +0000

Hi Katie,
Excellent, clear explanation by stripping it right down to the core!

One thing I noticed is that the in the initial “Probability density map for where I dropped my phone (based on my knowledge of where I dropped” grid the sum of probabilities equates to 1, but in the “Revised probability that my phone is in a certain square.” it does not (0.93)

Shouldn’t this not always sum up to 1?

Comment on A Bayesian Approach To Finding Lost Objects by Wieslaw

Wieslaw — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 07:18:03 +0000

just few things which are not clear for me:
– for clarity you could add explicitly P(Not found | Is not there) to Bayes formula and say that it is 1 (hard to find something if it isn’t there)
– also you could say that P(Not found | Is there) + P(Found | Is there) = 1
but for me the last formula is somewhat foggy. Could you give an example of computation here please?

Anyway, cool blog