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by sdiq 2193 days ago
And Reverend Bayes, too.
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Yes, REVEREND Bayes was clergy, too, and what would we do in machine learning without Bayes' theorem? (His grave is in London.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem

It seems Bayes never actually wrote down what is now called Bayes Theorem. (Perhaps he knew of it). I think it was Laplace that recognized the full generality of the relationship.