I like the idea.

Here we go, things that might be interesting to people to ask about:

• born in Kharkov, Ukraine, 1975, Jewish mother, Russian father

• went to a great physics/math school there (for one year before moving to US), was rather average for that school but loved it. Scored 9th in the city's math contest for my age group largely due to getting lucky with geometry problems - I used to have a knack for them

• moved to US

• ended up in a religious high school in Seattle because I was used to having lots of Jewish friends from the math school

• Became an orthodox Jew in high school

• Went to a rabbinical seminary in New York

• After 19 years, accumulation of doubts regarding some theological issues, Haitian disaster and a lot of help from LW quit religion

• Mostly worked as a programmer for startups with the exception of Bloomberg, which was a big company; going back to startups (1st day at Palantir tomorrow)

• self-taught enough machine learning/NLP to be useful as a specialist in this area

• Married with 3 boys, the older one is a high-functioning autistic

• Am pretty sure AI issues are important to worry about. MIRI and CFAR supporter