The teachings of Jaynes-sensei I’ve recently been trying to get through Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, which has come highly recommended, and with which opinion I so far wholeheartedly concur. It generally explains why Bayes was right, starting with a couple of basic desiderata, i.e.: degrees of Plausibility are represented by real numbers qualitative Correspondence with common sense that it always reasons consistently It turns out that these are totally sufficient to come up wit...
