Meetup : LessWrong Montreal Biweekly Meetup

2 Paul_G 07 April 2013 01:01AM

Discussion article for the meetup : LessWrong Montreal Biweekly Meetup

WHEN: 09 April 2013 06:30:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: 655 Ave. Du President Kennedy Montreal

Meetups are now Tuesday, and biweekly!

See you there.

Discussion article for the meetup : LessWrong Montreal Biweekly Meetup

Meetup : Montreal Meetup - Bayes' Theorem

3 Paul_G 19 March 2013 08:12PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal Meetup - Bayes' Theorem

WHEN: 25 March 2013 06:30:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: 655 Ave. Du President-Kennedy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The next weekly meetup is going to be another look at Bayes' theorem, given by our resident statistician.

See you there!

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal Meetup - Bayes' Theorem

Meetup : Montreal Meetup - Biased Pandemic

0 Paul_G 08 March 2013 09:20PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal Meetup - Biased Pandemic

WHEN: 11 March 2013 05:30:00PM (-0500)

WHERE: 655 Avenue du Président Kennedy, Montréal, QC H3A 3H9

Weekly meetup!

We're going to be doing biased boardgaming, specifically with the game Pandemic. We have two copies, so we should have enough for all members.

See you then!

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal Meetup - Biased Pandemic

Meetup : Montreal LessWrong Meetup - The Science of Winning at Life

2 Paul_G 12 February 2013 09:19PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal LessWrong Meetup - The Science of Winning at Life

WHEN: 18 February 2013 06:30:00PM (-0500)

WHERE: 655 Avenue du Président Kennedy, Montréal, QC H3A 3H9

Weekly meeting of the Montreal LessWrong Meetup group.

We've decided to look into the Science of Winning at Life. You can read the sequence here (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Science_of_Winning_at_Life) if you're interested.

See you there!

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal LessWrong Meetup - The Science of Winning at Life

Meetup : Montreal LessWrong Meetup - Emotions: Reading and Understanding

4 Paul_G 01 February 2013 10:43PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal LessWrong Meetup - Emotions: Reading and Understanding

WHEN: 04 February 2013 06:30:00PM (-0500)

WHERE: 655 Avenue du Président Kennedy, Montréal, QC H3A 3H9

Weekly meetup, we'll be discussing emotions, largely based in Paul Ekman's book Emotions Revealed.

We will also be looking at the METT and the SETT to improve our ability to read facial expressions. The Repetition Game may also show up.

See you there!

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal LessWrong Meetup - Emotions: Reading and Understanding

Meetup : Montreal LessWrong - The Future is Awesome

3 Paul_G 25 January 2013 02:07AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal LessWrong - The Future is Awesome

WHEN: 28 January 2013 06:30:00PM (-0500)

WHERE: 655 Avenue du Président Kennedy, Montréal, QC

Bringing in articles and discussing the progress of technology that remains hidden from our normal lives.

It's good to see what sort of progress is being made, and where the future will likely take us!

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal LessWrong - The Future is Awesome

Meetup : LessWrong Montreal - Social Resilience

5 Paul_G 16 January 2013 09:47AM

Discussion article for the meetup : LessWrong Montreal - Social Resilience

WHEN: 21 January 2013 06:30:00PM (-0500)

WHERE: 655 Ave. Du President-Kennedy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The next weekly meeting of the Montreal LessWrong group, we're going to be working on improving our Social Resilience.

We will be upstairs at the Cheesecake Factory.

See you then!

Discussion article for the meetup : LessWrong Montreal - Social Resilience

Meetup : Montreal LessWrong Meetup - More Biases and Biased Board Gaming

2 Paul_G 04 December 2012 07:51PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal LessWrong Meetup - More Biases and Biased Board Gaming

WHEN: 10 December 2012 06:30:00PM (-0500)

WHERE: 655 President Kennedy, Montreal

We discussed lots of biases last week, so this week we're going to actually whip out the board games! We have a copy or two of Pandemic, and one of Shadowrift to play with.

We'll be upstairs. See you then!

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal LessWrong Meetup - More Biases and Biased Board Gaming

Meetup : Montreal Meetup - Biases and Biased Boardgaming

2 Paul_G 27 November 2012 06:06PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal Meetup - Biases and Biased Boardgaming

WHEN: 03 December 2012 03:57:30PM (-0500)

WHERE: 655 Avenue du Président Kennedy, Montreal, QC H3A 3H9

Another weekly meeting of the Montreal group! We're going to be discussing different cognitive biases, and then if we have time, trying out biased boardgaming! Games of choice will probably be Pandemic and/or Shadowrift. We'll be upstairs, with some sort of sign that says "LessWrong". Also, we'll have board games. Hopefully. See you there.

Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal Meetup - Biases and Biased Boardgaming

Meetup : LessWrong Montreal - Advanced Epistemology 101

4 Paul_G 21 November 2012 04:05PM

Discussion article for the meetup : LessWrong Montreal - Advanced Epistemology 101

WHEN: 26 November 2012 06:30:00PM (-0500)

WHERE: 655 avenue du president kennedy, H3A 3H9

Weekly Montreal meetup.

We'll be at the Broadway Cheesecake, hopefully upstairs (if it's finally opened up). We're going to be discussing the new sequence, Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners, as many of us are relative newbies to Bayesian rationality.

Our focus will be the first post. Contact me if you're interested!

Discussion article for the meetup : LessWrong Montreal - Advanced Epistemology 101

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