At some point in the distant past, I wrote three posts about prior distributions. The first was very basic, because why not. The second one talked about conjugate priors. The third one talked about so-called objective priors. I am suddenly1 of a mood to write some more on this2 topic. The thing is, so far I’ve only really talked about methods for setting prior distributions that I don’t particularly care for. Fuck that. Let’s talk about things I like. There is enough negative energy3 in...