= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
RobinZ comments on Less Wrong Book Club and Study Group - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (148)
Please reply to this comment if you intend to participate, and are willing and able to free up a few hours per week or fortnight to work through the suggested reading or exercises.
Please indicate where you live, if you would be willing to have some discussion IRL. My intent is to facilitate an online discussion here on LW but face-to-face would be a nice complement, in locations where enough participants live.
(You need not check in again here if you have already done so in the previous discussion thread, but you can do so if you want to add details such as your location.)
Participants in the DC area, reply to this comment.
(I can go anywhere where WMATA and Ride-On public transportation can take me, but spend a lot of time at the University of Maryland.)
I'm in DC.
Are there some places you would suggest as tentative meeting-points? I have the combination to get into one of the student lounges at the University of Maryland, College Park, if you want tables, chairs, and a whiteboard.
That'd probably be fine though not super convenient for me. Alternatively, the Georgetown University Library always has group study rooms free during the summer. What kind of math background do you have?
Georgetown University Library isn't impossible, although I'd want help with the directions (particularly on locating the right building and right room in the building). My statistics background is the usual one-semester college course*, but I've got the full engineering-student education in calculus (I went as far as the partial differential equations course) and a smattering of linear algebra in the course of studying graduate dynamics and finite element methods. I usually pick it up fairly easily.
* The catalog entry for STAT400 in the year I took it states