Prior is an ecclesiastical title, derived from the Latin adjective for "earlier, first", with several notable uses.
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... In Bayesian probability, the Jeffreys prior, named after Harold Jeffreys, is a non-informative (objective) prior distribution on parameter space that is proportional to the square ...
... English poet Matthew Prior, while a secretary in the English embassy in France (since 1697), mentions in letters that he has been dining with Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, a ... "Boileau says I have more genius than all the academy," Prior wrote to Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey in July ... and that flattering country will spoil you." In his 1704 satire, Prior wrote Old friend, old foe, for such we are Alternate, as the chance of peace and war) ...
... Yet prior to this encounter, little is known about his early life and rise to power ... shunned by the High Priesthood in Jerusalem prior to the revolt ... Legio, he had already risen to a position of power in the priesthood prior to his military success ...
... Next, the prior model parameters are computed from 30 models, 10 from each of the three learnt categories spotted cats, faces, and airplanes ... This prior encodes the knowledge that "models lacking visual consistency occupy a different part of the parameter space coherent models." In learning, which is performed next, the prior ...
... reads data from a cartridge in its own generation and at least the two prior generations ... drive writes data to a cartridge in its own generation and to a cartridge from the immediate prior generation in the prior generation format ...
Famous quotes containing the word prior:
“They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.”
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
“To John I owed great obligation;
But John, unhappily, thought fit
To publish it to all the nation:
Sure John and I are more than quit.”
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
“As humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.”
—Valerie Solanas (b. 1940)