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Comment author: wedrifid 10 April 2013 08:34:33AM *  1 point [-]

Hi everyone, I'm labachevskij. I'm a long time lurker on this site, attracted by (IIRC) Bayesian Decision Theory. I'm completing my PhD studies in Maths, but I have also been caught by HPMOR, which is proving a huge source of procrastination (I'm reading it again for the third time). I'm also on my way with the reading of the sequences.

Welcome labachevskij!

What part of Math are you focusing on?

Comment author: labachevskij 10 April 2013 09:52:58AM 0 points [-]

I'm working on Partial Differential Equations in Fluid-dynamics, both deterministic and stochastic. I'm dealing mostly with turbulence models, right now. But I trained as a probabilist (and there's where my heart lies).

Are you into maths too?

Comment author: wedrifid 10 April 2013 11:20:18AM *  0 points [-]

Are you into maths too?

Only for recreation purposes these days. Most recently I've been grappling with the various ways of formulating and manipulating infinitesimals. The need for them keeps cropping up when I explore various obscure decision theory problems and the implication of certain counterfactuals expressed in terms of subsets of an ultimate ensemble.

But I trained as a probabilist (and there's where my heart lies).

Sounds fun!

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