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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.)
I have been going through the book myself, having never taken probability, statistics, combinatorics, past the high school level. I'm studying to be a mathematician, so I decided to fix that my reading Jaynes on Eliezer's recommendation. I had an electronic edition, and just got the paper edition a couple days ago. I have a one week vacation starting now, so this will probably occupy a large fraction of it.
I've spent probably 15-30 hours in the last two weeks on it, but I've been having trouble with the problems (which is unusual for me), and was looking for a study group. I didn't think it was appropriate for Less Wrong (clearly not true!) and I found someone locally.
I would be happy to talk with other members online. I've never used Google Wave, but people can contact me via email or instant messenger until I get the hang of it. My throwaway is 'lispalien' on Yahoo! Messenger, or you can get another IM handle by contacting me any which way, including a private message here.