'm searching for a scholar partner to explore the area of machine learning, Solomonoff induction, K-complexity and the like, but would also be interested in other fields, I'm not yet settled for this, so if you'd rather like to explore metaethics, I'd probably be in for that as well.
I have signed up for a series of free online classes offered by a bunch of Stanford professors this year (with particular interest in the machine learning and AI class). I have also considered getting some serious thought done on the various metaethics material on LW, its one of the few sequences that I haven't really approached systematically.
My country of residence is Slovenia (which shares the Central European time zone with Germany). I'm a physics student in my (very) early 20s. I'm afraid my German has gotten rather poor with years of non use.
That sounds great, I'm gonna enroll for the ai and ml classes. This will be taking much of my spare time, but until it starts, we could try if we can cooperate well and look at the metaethics sequence if you like.
Pondering the question of how to do efficient scholarly study, I figured a good way for me may be having something like a chavruta although not quite the same, a partner with which to study a field of science together, helping each other at answering questions which arise, searching for useful articles, in general, being more awesome together than each of us could be alone. Such a scholar partner should, for me, have a similar state of knowledge, i.e. the difference should be small enough to overcome it in a short amount of time, have similar interests as well as a similar amount of motivation, have enough spare time, live in a similar time zone and ideally be of similar age and nationality/language. In case others are searching for a scholar partner as well, I'm posting my personal information in the comments instead of here.
What is your opinion on this type of cooperation? What might be pitfalls in this approach? Did I forget any important criteria for a useful scholar partner?