I don’t ordinarily leave comments, but I wanted to point out one specific thing. You did, at least partially, reach your original target of elementary school students with “An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes Theorem”. (Well, I suppose, middle school students.) I read that essay for the first time when I was very young, and it—along with all the other essays on this blog—gave me an excellent foundation in the areas I chose later to focus on, cognitive psychology and machine learning.
I didn’t think about writing you a grateful email at the time, for a variety of reasons, the least of which being I didn’t have an email address. I’m still not going to do that, since I’m waiting to send you an email until I’ve put together an application for a software development position at MIRI—something I’ve been working for since I first read HPMOR and fell in love with rationality. But I did want to say something, because I belatedly realized I’ve never actually done it, so here’s that. Thanks, sensei.
I don’t ordinarily leave comments, but I wanted to point out one specific thing. You did, at least partially, reach your original target of elementary school students with “An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes Theorem”. (Well, I suppose, middle school students.) I read that essay for the first time when I was very young, and it—along with all the other essays on this blog—gave me an excellent foundation in the areas I chose later to focus on, cognitive psychology and machine learning.
I didn’t think about writing you a grateful email at the time, for a variety of reasons, the least of which being I didn’t have an email address. I’m still not going to do that, since I’m waiting to send you an email until I’ve put together an application for a software development position at MIRI—something I’ve been working for since I first read HPMOR and fell in love with rationality. But I did want to say something, because I belatedly realized I’ve never actually done it, so here’s that. Thanks, sensei.