The meetup after this one isn’t planned yet. We’ll probably use a doodle poll that’s sent around on the mailing list to find a good day again. Also check the note about scheduling in this meetup’s announcement.
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It’s on Friday the 28th. The poll was sent via the mailing list, I’m not sure whether you’re subscribed to it.
E-book readers such as the Kindle
I use mine way more often than I originally expected. The low weight means I can have it in my bag by default. A lot of content is available in e-book format and it’s easy to get onto the device. Reading lengthy articles on it makes me less likely to get distracted by links, email, etc.
The unexpected killer feature for me was that you can use it one-handedly. I’ve been carrying my sleeping daughter and reading at the same time for hours—that would have been impossible or at least prohibitively uncomfortable with a book.
Great document! Were there any major changes from the last version on google docs?
Some comments:
The “Add new meetup” button described in “Making the announcement” only appears if you have more than two points of karma. While most organizers probably meet that requirement, I thought I simply hadn’t found the right place and had to ask someone. I’d prefer if the button showed, but was disabled and had a “need two karma for that” tooltip for people with <2 karma over adding the information to the document.
In the section on Liar’s dice:
See Wikipedia for a number of variants, as well as detailed information about the bidding systems.
Unfortunately the descriptions of the various bidding systems were recently removed from Wikipedia. This is the last revision that has them.
Is the mini-camp material available publicly somewhere? It may be interesting to have for other meetups but I couldn’t find it in a quick search.
Sure! Can you send me your email address? I’d like to ask if anyone else from the mailing list is interested and would CC you to make it easier to organise.
I have decks for:
English vocabulary. I’ve learned many new words and sometimes get an explanation for a word I had only inferred the meaning of from the context—and guessed wrongly.
Family facts, mostly birthdays. It’s a minor thing really, but I used to not know how old everyone is. And more than once I felt bad when someone asked about the age of a parent and I had to say ‘no idea’.
Random facts I’ve looked up several times before or that I don’t want to have to ever admit not knowing. Like the age of the solar system, the first few digits of Euler’s number, approximately when Newton lived. This kind of thing.
What I wish I had a deck for: Math. I really enjoyed doing math and am sad that I’ll forget most of the definitions and theorems now that I don’t use them regularly anymore. I’ve tried converting my lecture notes into flashcards, but it’s a lot of work that I’m not motivated enough to do.
Hello!
I’m a mathematician and working as a programmer in Berlin, Germany. I read HPMOR after following a recommendation in a talk on Cognitive Psychology For Hackers and proceeded to read most of the sequences.
Reading LW has had several practical consequences for me: Spaced repetition and effective altruism were new to me. Things have also improved around social skills, exercise and nutrition.
I’m also part of a small Berlin LW meetup: spuckblase and me have met twice—and now we got contacted by two other Berlin based lurkers which prompted the creation of a wiki entry and a mailing list. We’re now planning the first meetup that will actually get a meetup post and be announced in advance.
That’s me. I found here through HP:MoR fairly recently and am currently reading through the sequences. I’m also a mathematician who, surprisingly, never attended a lecture on probability theory. Eliezer insistently praises Jaynes’ “Probability Theory”, so I also got that to fill in the blanks.
If you’re interested, I’d like to meet and chat. I’ll send you a PM.
We will meet at Ming Dynastie tomorrow.