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Reflection in Probabilistic Logic
Peteris70

Told about the Whitely sentence to a friend who is studying physics. After two minutes of reflection, he suggested: "it ought to be like a delta function around 30%". Needless to say, I was blown away.

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Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013)
Peteris200

Hi,

I'm a final year Mathematics student at Cambridge coming from an IOI, IMO background. I've written software for a machine learning startup, a game dev startup and Google. I was recently interested in programming language theory esp. probabilistic and logic programming (some experiments here http://peteriserins.tumblr.com/archive).

I'm interested in many aspects of startups (including design) and hope to move into product management, management consulting or venture capital. I love trying to think rationally about business processes and have started to wr... (read more)

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6Nisan
Welcome! You may want to consider participating in a CFAR workshop. I think it's 1000% as effective for learning instrumental rationality as reading Less Wrong. They're optimized for teaching practical skills, and they tend to attract entrepreneurs. Also, I think you'd be a valuable addition to the community around CFAR, in addition to the online community around the Less Wrong website.