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I'm glad you enjoyed it =)

And please, I'm curious about a response to Don_Draper's question: have you been able to apply either Bayesian inference, or Bayesian thinking?

Did you find a use for it at your job? One of the challenges is to make something that is new and useful to other people.

I think whether it's applicable depends on your job. Two immediate ideas for me were modeling query cost (I work on a high performance server at work, and one of its responsibilities is to guarantee certain rates of queries to certain users) and anomaly detection (for monitoring that server). In my workplace we already have better tools for some of these things, but it's nice to know I could whip up my own if I spent a little time to think about the random variables.

How long did it take you to work through everything?