In the honor of our swanky new poll tech, help me determine which post I should write next. (By next, I mean “in parallel with a chapter-by-chapter review of Causality and my rationalist MLP fanfic,” so no guarantees which gets done first.)
The main candidates are:
Rereading An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem, I was struck by how uninformative the introduction was. Why do you want to learn Bayes? Because it’s cool! It seems like a post explaining what mindset / worldview would find Bayes useful might be a useful complement to that.
About a year ago JenniferRM suggested I give an overview of Operations Research as a field. (I’d call it the field of industrial rationality, and suspect that it would be a fertile place for high school / college age LWers to set their sights.)
It felt like this comment on Value of Information could be expanded to a full post, but it steadily moved down my queue of “things I want to write.”
Focus any extra writing effort on your review of Causality.
Focus any extra writing effort on your MLP fanfic.
Something else. (Feel free to suggest something in a reply comment.)
A relative of mine is a huge Operations Research fanboy, but I don’t get it—I just see graph theory and calculus, and some clever but brittle planning algorithms. If you can explain what the big deal is, please do.
In the honor of our swanky new poll tech, help me determine which post I should write next. (By next, I mean “in parallel with a chapter-by-chapter review of Causality and my rationalist MLP fanfic,” so no guarantees which gets done first.)
The main candidates are:
Rereading An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem, I was struck by how uninformative the introduction was. Why do you want to learn Bayes? Because it’s cool! It seems like a post explaining what mindset / worldview would find Bayes useful might be a useful complement to that.
About a year ago JenniferRM suggested I give an overview of Operations Research as a field. (I’d call it the field of industrial rationality, and suspect that it would be a fertile place for high school / college age LWers to set their sights.)
It felt like this comment on Value of Information could be expanded to a full post, but it steadily moved down my queue of “things I want to write.”
Focus any extra writing effort on your review of Causality.
Focus any extra writing effort on your MLP fanfic.
Something else. (Feel free to suggest something in a reply comment.)
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Woah, woah, woah!
Polls! And even with graphs! Tricycle is awesome!
A relative of mine is a huge Operations Research fanboy, but I don’t get it—I just see graph theory and calculus, and some clever but brittle planning algorithms. If you can explain what the big deal is, please do.