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Illustrator needed: Intuitive Bayes 2.0
A huge revision of The Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning is in progress, aimed at being considerably more accessible and hence with a lot more graphics. I need someone who can turn out versions of the illustrations that are technically accurate enough to try on beta readers, fast enough and reliably enough that I can ask for revised versions of the illustrations a day later if the beta reader says they didn't understand it. There is a Google Doc in progress which you would be given permission to edit, containing some hand-drawn attempts on my part to indicate what the illustrations should look like, and a number of finished illustrations from an illustrator who unfortunately cannot put in any further work on this job.
For this job, technical accuracy (i.e., if a ratio is 3:4, it should not look like 1:9), understandability, and speed is much more important than beauty - the idea is to get as quickly as possible to a working version with understandable illustrations that has been verified by the beta readers.
If interested, email me at yudkowsky@gmail.com.
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Wanted: Python open source volunteers
Less Wrong is a fork of the open Reddit codebase, written in Python. Less Wrong's code is online at Github (look in r2/r2 for the meat), the issues tracker is at code.google.com. See Contributing to Less Wrong for a gentle introduction to getting started.
According to Reddit's blog, we are the coolest use of reddit source code they've seen! But we've still got a long way to go before we're as cool as we want to be.
If anyone out there is fluent in Python and willing to donate a noticeable amount of time to a good cause, an extra hand or two might help us implement many Less Wrong features a lot sooner.
The Reddit codebase does not have unit tests or a whole lot of documentation. Contributors need to be able to wade through Reddit's code to grok it, and write unit tests for what they do (or better yet, write unit tests for existing code).
Items on the issues tracker marked "Contributions-Welcome" are those that look relatively easy to contribute. Items marked "Contributions-LeaveItToUs" are those that look big and complicated, or that Tricycle (the main developers) have strong opinions about how to design and implement. You could hack the big ones, but the developers might need to spend time talking to you - so please don't step up unless you're fluent in Python, have the necessary time, and are serious about it.
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