THE VIDEO SHELF · bayes theorem
Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs
3Blue1Brown presents Bayes' theorem through a geometric diagram, showing how evidence should update beliefs. It works through the Kahneman and Tversky style questions and base rates.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people recommend it as the most intuitive introduction to Bayes' theorem and cite it in base-rate arguments.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- 3Blue1Brown
- Topic
- bayes theorem
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Probably, but more likely a lack of knowledge and an overestimation of their knowledge. People are famously bad with statistics but people are also famously over confident in their understanding of numbers and data. I mean cloud servers really try to get some extra 9s …
godelski on Hacker News · 2024-07
In Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPFThere's a very cool 3Blue1Brown video [0] that helps give you an intuitive feel for Bayes Theorem. [0] [VIDEO]
logshipper on Hacker News · 2022-01
In Visualizing Bayes Theorem (2009)
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