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Glanced over them. I started with the Intuitive Explanation and my brain slid off it repeatedly. I fear that if that's the "intuitive" explanation, then all the merely quite bright people are b*ggered. Needs rewriting for the merely quite bright, as opposed to the brilliant. This is what I meant about how, if you have a pitch, it better target the merely quite bright if you have any serious interest in spreading your favoured ideas.
This ties into my current interest, books that eat people's brains. I'm increasingly suspecting this has little to do with the book itself. I realise that sentence is condensed to all but incomprehensibility, but the eventual heartbreaking work of staggering genius will show a lot more of the working.
My video lecture you've found also includes a brief introduction to Bayes' Theorem.