Boosting the Reliability of Your Rating System Using Bayesian Entropy

Scott Vinay, PhD Data Scientist, says:
I've started a blog as a place to collect various ideas I have around stats, physics, and machine learning that don't warrant writing a full paper. My first post here is about how we can use ideas from information theory to improve recommended systems so we don't unfairly bias against good reviewers.


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