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Elo comments on Open Thread May 23 - May 29, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: PipFoweraker 23 May 2016 12:58:21AM 4 points [-]

Reminiscing over one of my favourite passages from Anathem, I've been enjoying looking through visual, wordless proofs of late. The low-hanging fruit is mostly classical geomety, but a few examples of logical proofs have popped up as well.

This got me wondering if it's possible to communicate the fundamental idea of Bayes' Theorem in an entirely visual format, without written language or symbols needing translation. I'd welcome thoughts from anyone else on this.

Comment author: Elo 23 May 2016 01:31:34AM -1 points [-]

Was considering something like a tshirt of p(smoke|fire) and p(fire|smoke). never came to fruition; feel free to take the idea if you like.