This is what I thought everyone was going to say. I don’t see why you’d be concerned about the paycheck though, a strong mathematics background could land you a job as a banker or trader or something. But looking at your upvotes it seems like plenty of people agree with you.
My next question would be what you’d like to have a basic introduction to. Plenty of LW posts tend to assume a grounding in subjects like maths, economics or philosophy—which is fine, this is a community for informed people—but it probably shrinks LW’s audience somewhat, and certainly shrinks the pool of people who are able to understand all the posts. We probably miss this because nobody’s going to jump into the middle of a thread and say, “I lack the education to understand this.” espiecally not a casual reader.
My upvotes are probably due to the fact that I said mathematics, rather than any agreement concerning my potential lack of paycheck. I know that a mathematics background could supply me a paycheck at this point in my life, but I was urged against it by some other people when I was choosing my major.
Basic introduction to? Is this in addition to the expertise I got from the genie, or if the genie was only offering me a basic introduction? Do I only get to choose one? Gee that’s hard. I’m pretty much working on having a basic introduction to everything already. So, given my existing basic introductions… I think I’d like to get a basic introduction to quantum physics… but that’s kind of cheating because I’d have to know a lot of physics and mathematics in the basic intro. I choose that one because I want to know it for purely vain reasons, and it would be nice to save the time of learning it for more “useful” studies.
This blog definitely is going to appeal to a minority of people. I personally do not have the proper education to follow the bayesian/frequentist debate, though I want to hear about it. I think that the healthy practice of linking to information is fantastic, as well as the lesswrong wiki. That way if you know what the person is talking about, you don’t have to follow the link, but if you need to learn, it’s right there at your fingertips.
Edit: Oh right, and I can’t contribute to quantum physics discussions very well either.
This is what I thought everyone was going to say. I don’t see why you’d be concerned about the paycheck though, a strong mathematics background could land you a job as a banker or trader or something. But looking at your upvotes it seems like plenty of people agree with you.
My next question would be what you’d like to have a basic introduction to. Plenty of LW posts tend to assume a grounding in subjects like maths, economics or philosophy—which is fine, this is a community for informed people—but it probably shrinks LW’s audience somewhat, and certainly shrinks the pool of people who are able to understand all the posts. We probably miss this because nobody’s going to jump into the middle of a thread and say, “I lack the education to understand this.” espiecally not a casual reader.
My upvotes are probably due to the fact that I said mathematics, rather than any agreement concerning my potential lack of paycheck. I know that a mathematics background could supply me a paycheck at this point in my life, but I was urged against it by some other people when I was choosing my major.
Basic introduction to? Is this in addition to the expertise I got from the genie, or if the genie was only offering me a basic introduction? Do I only get to choose one? Gee that’s hard. I’m pretty much working on having a basic introduction to everything already. So, given my existing basic introductions… I think I’d like to get a basic introduction to quantum physics… but that’s kind of cheating because I’d have to know a lot of physics and mathematics in the basic intro. I choose that one because I want to know it for purely vain reasons, and it would be nice to save the time of learning it for more “useful” studies.
This blog definitely is going to appeal to a minority of people. I personally do not have the proper education to follow the bayesian/frequentist debate, though I want to hear about it. I think that the healthy practice of linking to information is fantastic, as well as the lesswrong wiki. That way if you know what the person is talking about, you don’t have to follow the link, but if you need to learn, it’s right there at your fingertips.
Edit: Oh right, and I can’t contribute to quantum physics discussions very well either.