The Houston LW meetup group will be gathering this Sunday at 1PM to discuss the 4th chapter of ET Jaynes "The Logic of Science". We will also have one of our members discussing "The 4 Hour Work Week", which has received some good press on this forum.

Anyone is welcome to join, and there will be breakfast foods available if you so desire. Bring some money for the tip jar if you want some food.

The Houston Less Wrong meet up group will reconvene this Sunday at 12:00PM at the local hackerspace. We'll be going over the third chapter of ET Jayne's "The Logic of Science" and working out the problems. Afterwards, many of us will be going rock climbing at a local gym.

Communal breakfast food is usually available, but bring in some cash for the tip jar to compensate the hackerspace.

We will be going over E.T. Jayne's "The Logic of Science" this Sunday at 2PM.The goal, established at the last meeting, will be to go over the exercises in Chapter 2 and to have read chapter 3. We will also be discussing the possibility of forming a class on neural networks in the hackerspace.

Food, as always is an option. Usually, some type of communal breakfast food is already being cooked, so bring money for the tip jar if you wish to partake.

The Houston LW meetup will have our next meeting this coming Sunday at 2:00 PM. We will be discussing the first two chapters of E.T. Jaynes "The Logic of Science", available here:

http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf

The first two chapters are relatively easy for those with some experience in formal logic, but we will make sure everyone understands the basics. We will also be going over the following sequences in the discussion, if time permits:

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside (http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/)

Feel the Meaning (http://lesswrong.com/lw/nq/feel_the_meaning/)

Replace the Symbol with the Substance (http://lesswrong.com/lw/nv/replace_the_symbol_with_the_substance/)

As always, pizza is an option if we feel like it. Bacon, eggs and other snacks are often produced in the hackerspace kitchen during this time, but those are communal products, so bring some cash for the tip jar if you partake.

There will be a meetup this Sunday at 2PM at the local hackerspace. We'll be discussing the Maps and Territories sequence, as well as plannig a reading schedule for ET Jayne's "The Logic of Science". All are welcome, and we can order pizza if people are interested. PM me for my cell number if you are a new member, and need help finding the place the day of.

Saturday at 3PM, we will be having a meetup on pure logic and mental content, hosted by a philosopher friend of mine. If there is time afterward, I'll have a game of paranoid debating ready to play.

As always, if you want to come but can't make it, send me an email or a message, and we'll work out plans for future meetings.

After a temporary hiatus, the Houston LW meetup group will reconvene on 10/30 at 2:00 PM. I will be presenting a paper from within my field of research, theoretical neuroscience. The paper, "Adaptive Drift-Diffusion Process to Learn Time Intervals", can be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2382 While somewhat interesting in its own right, I'll use it as a jumping off point to discuss the methods and goals of theoretical neuroscience as a whole. It's an exciting field that crosses over on a lot of themes covered on LW. As always, new members are welcome and encouraged to PM me before the meetup.

There will be another meeting at the hackerspace this Saturday. I'll be giving a presentation on a theoretical neuroscience article about timing in the brain. While not related to rationality directly, it's a topic I understand well and can use to segue into methods and goals of theoretical neuroscience as a whole. This should take an hour, maybe an hour and a half.

If anyone is interested in reading up before hand, the article is here:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2382

Hi everyone. Sorry for the short notice - some space opened up in my weekend, and I figured I would go ahead and put out an announcement. If any LWers in Houston want to hang out for a while, I'll be at the hackerspace Saturday afternoon working on a project. Feel free to drop by - we can get a game of some sort going if several people show up.

Usual comers, take note of the change in date and time.

After a short break (I was on vacation and then catching up from being on vacation), the Houston hackerspace meetup will be meeting again this Sunday at 2 PM. I will be giving a presentation on the history of psychology, where it has been, and where it is going. Some type of board game will follow.