What are you working on? December 2011

jsalvatier

This is the sixth bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

This is the sixth bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

Previous post.

Progress report:

Social: My social skill improvement continues to be successful, and I'm much happier socially. I joined okcupid, not for any particular purpose but because I realized the only reason I hadn't was an unfounded nervousness about "something."

Mathematics: I finished the first three chapters of Silverman and I have some papers to read; I'm going to be looking into some conjectures of Jochnowitz about the derivatives of L-series and Shimura lifts.

Practical: I replaced my keyboard and the new keyboard is great! Otherwise... I've been lazy due to winter break.

LessWrong: I stopped about in the middle of The Skeptical Environmentalist, possibly in part due to an ugh field from some negative comments and in part due to having some personal trouble reading recently. I just haven't been enjoying it. However! I joined the google group for developing rationality curricula and I'm pretty excited about that at the moment.

I don't feel particularly accomplished compared to the others on here...

If you want a female perspective on your okc profile, message me.

-1Username14y

There are a few reasons I haven't joined OkCupid, but one of them is that I'm conflicted about the "drugs" question. I want to answer it honestly but don't want employers (and other squares) to see the honest answer. I could make it harder to find by making the profile visible only to other OkCupid users and not using my regular internet pseudonym, but my location and pictures would still be there. (I'm using the "community throwaway account" to write this.) Edit: I like your profile.

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