How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes' rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first ...

First articulated in the 18th century by a hobbyist-mathematician seeking to reason backward from effects to cause, Bayes’ theorem spent the better part of two centuries struggling for recognition and ...

An international team of physicists has extended Bayes’ rule into the quantum realm, potentially transforming how we handle uncertainty in quantum computing and machine learning. The study is ...