spellcheck is so easy you have no excuse
bad grammar is less painful than doesn't-even-care-to-spellcheck
Eesh, there are certainly people like those two categories, but it's usually used as rather of a false dichotomy. http://www.succeedsocially.com/introversion
Help me get matrix multiplication? (Intuitively understand.) I've asked google and read through http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/31725/what-does-matrix-multiplication-actually-mean and similar pages&articles , and I get what linear functions mean. I've had it explained in terms of transformation matrices and I get how those work and I'm somewhat familiar with them from opengl. But it's always seemed like additional complexity that happens to work (and sometimes happens to work in a cute way) because it's this combination of multiplication and ad...
What if you know jar A is 80% red and jar B is 0% red, and you know you're looking at one of them, and your confidence that it's A is 0.625? Then you have probability 0.5 that a bead chosen from the jar in front of you is red, but will update upwards with probability 0.625 if you're given the information of which jar you're looking at.
If they say one thing and intend to do another, sure - but if they actually update? That may be bad PR, but I don't think it's undemocratic.
aw, he still thinks ad hominem is cute
you should respect norm-violating lesswrong posters more
especially when someone around you goes all "yeah, thank you :D"