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Interesting note: finishing reading Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise on a flight last night and coincidentally came upon this quote about R.A. Fisher, the early 20^th century English statistician and opponent of Bayesian Statistics, “Fisher was a much more colorful character than Bayes, almost in the English intellectual tradition of Christopher Hitchens. He was handsome but a slovenly dresser, 42 always smoking his pipe or his cigarettes, constantly picking fights with his real and imagined rivals. He was a mediocre lecturer but an incisive writer with a flair for drama, and an engaging and much-sought-after dinner companion.”