I'd read Yudkowsky's popular "An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem" as well as a few others, but the article on this site made me feel like I actually understood it for the first time. The examples were clever, short, and simple, while still demonstrating how powerful Bayes' Theorem can be.
The concise explanations here seem more helpful than semester-long university courses I've taken. I definitely look forward to exploring his other articles on math and programming.
There's a strange tendency in technical explanations to expand, expand, expand. A heuristic I have: Imagine you're writing a letter to yourself, before you started the course. There's no reason to waste your own time, just cover the key difficulties and how to overcome them, in simple language you would have understood.
(Oh, this letter also costs $5 a word, so let's make them count!)
The concise explanations here seem more helpful than semester-long university courses I've taken. I definitely look forward to exploring his other articles on math and programming.