aretae comments on Less Wrong Book Club and Study Group - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Morendil 09 June 2010 05:00PM

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Comment author: aretae 09 June 2010 09:18:33PM 7 points [-]

I'm not exactly between 0 and 1...But I have some hours available here, and would like to do this. I've been through bits of Jaynes, but the social aspect will make doing the whole thing more interesting.

FWIW, I've a math degree, and have 20 years of technical (math, software, etc.) teaching expertise, if you'd like some assistance.

I'd suggest to everyone who hasn't as much tech-teaching experience that time spent doing exercises is the only thing that you should be counting as learning-time. Time spent reading has no feedback system, and you don't know (despite believing) whether you've learned anything. Do-->Learn. Read-->???

Comment author: Morendil 10 June 2010 06:50:33AM 1 point [-]

if you'd like some assistance.

That would be wonderful, thanks.

Time spent reading has no feedback system

Book discussions can counteract that to some extent: we will be asking questions about the material, and participating in such a discussion can correct misconceptions or prompt you to pay closer attention to something that struck you as trivial at first.

Comment author: michaelkeenan 10 June 2010 09:46:51AM 0 points [-]

I'm in. Taipei, Taiwan.