Bayes occupies a place of privilege in the Sequences and for some time had a place of privilege in the CFAR curriculum as well, but it didn’t much work and so we stopped. I’m not saying it’s bad in principle, I’m saying it empirically didn’t work as a class for intro workshops despite our trying many different approaches.
You might dispute whether that’s a positive change, but it’s certainly a way in which I see “the state of the art” as having shifted over time.
Right, your comment was informative in letting us know that Double Crux (among other things) has replaced Bayes’ Theorem in the CFAR curriculum. But it also casually asserts that this is an example of progress and that the old curriculum was worse, in a way that suggests that you expected the reader to either already agree or immediately find it obvious. So I’m just letting you know that I don’t find it obvious.
There might be some question about whether this can be described as “definitely making progress.”
Bayes occupies a place of privilege in the Sequences and for some time had a place of privilege in the CFAR curriculum as well, but it didn’t much work and so we stopped. I’m not saying it’s bad in principle, I’m saying it empirically didn’t work as a class for intro workshops despite our trying many different approaches.
You might dispute whether that’s a positive change, but it’s certainly a way in which I see “the state of the art” as having shifted over time.
Right, your comment was informative in letting us know that Double Crux (among other things) has replaced Bayes’ Theorem in the CFAR curriculum. But it also casually asserts that this is an example of progress and that the old curriculum was worse, in a way that suggests that you expected the reader to either already agree or immediately find it obvious. So I’m just letting you know that I don’t find it obvious.