"From the rail of a 184-foot vessel, a 22-year-old named Matthew Griffiths took out his phone to record a video. The British deckhand was just a week and a half into his first official yacht job, and he wasn't on just any boat. The yacht, the $40 million Bayesian, was a star of the superyacht world, considered to be a feat of minimal design and precision engineering."
"Lynch had built his fortune on understanding probability, on turning the unlikely into the possible. He had named his yacht Bayesian in honor of the statistical theorem that made him a billionaire, after the sale, in 2011, of his company Autonomy. The British tech giant sold software that could find meaningful signals amid the flood of unstructured data in emails, videos, and phone calls, but it would be better known as the company that allegedly defrauded, and nearly destroyed, Hewlett-Packard."
In the predawn hours of August 19, 2024, lightning forked above the Mediterranean while a 22-year-old deckhand filmed the 184-foot superyacht Bayesian and posted the video to Instagram set to AC/DC's "Thunderstruck." Owner Michael Lynch was aboard celebrating his acquittal in a high-profile fraud trial after a 13-year legal ordeal. Lynch built his fortune by selling Autonomy in 2011 and named the yacht for Bayesian probability. Autonomy developed software to detect signals in unstructured data but became notorious for allegations that it defrauded and nearly destroyed Hewlett-Packard. The yacht's cabins held Lynch's wife, longtime allies, and his legal team.
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