Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), located inside the Westside Pavillion on the second floor, right by the movie theaters. The entrance sign says "Lounge".
Parking is free for 3 hours.
Discussion: This week we will talk about evidence. This means we will do a bit of math (super basic Bayesian update example problems) to get a sense of how much weak evidence it takes to counter strong evidence, etc. This will certainly lead into discussion on how to do this in mathemtically intractable cases (basically, all of them), and probably into musing on what calculations we may have to reconsider in our own lives.
No foreknowledge or exposure to Less Wrong is necessary; this will be generally accessable and useful to anyone who values thinking for themselves. There will be open general conversation until 7:30, and that's always a lot of good, fun, intelligent discussion!
I will bring a whiteboard with Bayes' Theorem written on it.
Discussion article for the meetup : West LA Meetup - Strong Evidence, Weak Evidence
WHEN: 13 March 2013 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: 10850 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064
When: 7:00pm Wednesday, March 13th.
Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), located inside the Westside Pavillion on the second floor, right by the movie theaters. The entrance sign says "Lounge".
Parking is free for 3 hours.
Discussion: This week we will talk about evidence. This means we will do a bit of math (super basic Bayesian update example problems) to get a sense of how much weak evidence it takes to counter strong evidence, etc. This will certainly lead into discussion on how to do this in mathemtically intractable cases (basically, all of them), and probably into musing on what calculations we may have to reconsider in our own lives.
No foreknowledge or exposure to Less Wrong is necessary; this will be generally accessable and useful to anyone who values thinking for themselves. There will be open general conversation until 7:30, and that's always a lot of good, fun, intelligent discussion!
I will bring a whiteboard with Bayes' Theorem written on it.
Discussion article for the meetup : West LA Meetup - Strong Evidence, Weak Evidence