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A visual guide to Bayesian thinking
Julia Galef · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2017–2021).
SignalTube analysis
Among 6 other talk videos tagged Probability & game theory, the mean is 1.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.8× that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 1.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2017–2021; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 11 minutes 25 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2015-07-16.
- Channel / speaker
- Julia Galef
- Verified runtime
- 11m 25s
- YouTube upload date
- 2015-07-16
- Hacker News mention years
- 2017–2021
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Probability & game theory. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A visual guide to Bayesian thinkingCurrent video | 3 | 3 | 100% | — | 11m 25s | 2015-07-16 |
| John Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014talk · O'Reilly | 3 | 3 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 11m 48s | 2014-10-17 |
| GDC 2010: Sid Meier Keynote - "Everything You Know is Wrong"talk · GameSpot | 2 | 3 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 53m 58s | 2010-03-15 |
| AI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018talk · CraftHub Events | 2 | 2 | 33% | No recorded overlap | 43m 23s | 2018-11-20 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “How is efficacy vs. severe disease strong if 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?”. Its short rationale: Good explanation of Bayesian statistics.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret”. Its short rationale: Short accessible intro to prior probability.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “The Kolmogorov option”. Its short rationale: Improves rational thinking forever.