arundelo comments on Personal Evidence - Superstitions as Rational Beliefs - Less Wrong

3 Post author: OrphanWilde 22 March 2013 05:24PM

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Comment author: arundelo 28 March 2013 06:50:34PM *  1 point [-]

In certain contexts an asterisk is a magic character and you need to precede it with a backslash to keep it from turning into <em> or </em>. To get

p(X|M, M1) = p(M|X)*P(X|M1)/p(M|M1)

do

p(X|M, M1) = p(M|X)\*P(X|M1)/p(M|M1)

Or you can just put equations in their own paragraphs that are indented by four spaces, in which case no characters will have their magic meaning. (This is how I did the above paragraph where the backslash is visible.)

Comment author: OrphanWilde 28 March 2013 06:57:24PM 1 point [-]

Is there a reference somewhere on LessWrong or the Wiki for the mark-up used in the comments?

Comment author: arundelo 28 March 2013 07:37:44PM 2 points [-]

There's a "Show help" button on the right underneath comment fields. The quick reference it reveals includes a link to the wiki page.

The formatting language used is a (not totally bug-free) subset of Markdown.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 28 March 2013 07:45:29PM 1 point [-]

Laughs I'm so used to useless help screens I ignored that button, looked for it manually on the wiki, couldn't find it, and gave up. Thanks!