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Why would it not be? You can use big data and neural nets to fit Bayesian models (variational inference).

I meant specifically the book, which doe not have any of those things you mentioned.

Also nobody fits neural networks and use variation inference using any priors that aren’t some standard form that makes algorithm easy

Yeah definitely! People still need to do statistical inference in 2025 (see ex. the field of econometrics).