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Interview with Lugg (YC S15) with some details on how they did it: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/interview-with-lugg-founder...

Very interesting! I explored this method and compared it to Newton's method, you may like it: https://github.com/sharnett/point_to_ellipse/blob/master/poi...

"x is with a likelihood of 95% between a and b" -- that is not what a confidence interval means. Confidence intervals are about as confusing as p-values and don't really solve the …

Very nice, much faster than simulating it. I guess if you're using an informative prior, instead of adding 1 to the number of successes and failures, you add the corresponding para…

A nit pick: I believe your 'readable' interpretation of the confidence interval isn't quite right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_interval#Meaning_and...