I’m a long-time lurker, 21 years old, living in Germany, and I’m currently in… the equivalent of high school (my education path is pretty serpentine – long story). I will hopefully be graduating next spring/summer and then presumably study mathematics.
I actually don‘t know how I first ended up here – I vaguely remember stumbling across a few articles and then succumbing to link-hopping (resulting in a few dozen open tabs). It seems to be ages since I know about LessWrong. Also, last December I attended a meetup.
Currently, I am working myself through the Sequences; although I will probably revisit at least some of the parts later. Especially those with probability theory.
It‘s not like I don‘t have at least basic knowledge about statistics and probabilities – I have math as AP for Gauß‘s sake! – it‘s just (at least for now) not my particular cup of tea (I tend to like abstract stuff more – algebra, number theory, set theory, I’ve dipped my toes in category theory – probability and statistics seems like so much calculating) and I think, I should go over this with more time and intent to practice; instead of (just?) trying to get a complete overview.
I‘m not (yet?) used to explicitly calculate how certain I should be about whatever. -- I’m planning on starting a journal for that particular purpose, and also doing a deep dive… some time… but I don’t know when I’ll actually get to that, especially considering my already way-to-long to-do-list. Also, perhaps I should learn estimating probabilities (and betting) properly first, I don’t know?
My interests tend to be quite broad, but very much aligned with this site and its orbit—this might actually partially be a chicken-and-egg-problem; this site might actually have influenced me quite a bit.
I originally planned to finish the sequences first before I write anything at all here; but that might take a lot of time and I’m starting to think that that might be a bad idea...
On the other hand, I don’t know exactly what I could contribute just yet, except for maybe one other comment. But I think, that will be alright in time—one comment at a time.
...I don’t quite know what to write, but feel free to ask me what you would like to know!
Welcome :) Best of skill with reading The Sequences. And yeah, in the meantime do keep your eye out for anywhere that you can contribute something with a comment. See you around.
Hi everyone! :)
So I’m actually introducing myself now!
I’m a long-time lurker, 21 years old, living in Germany, and I’m currently in… the equivalent of high school (my education path is pretty serpentine – long story). I will hopefully be graduating next spring/summer and then presumably study mathematics.
I actually don‘t know how I first ended up here – I vaguely remember stumbling across a few articles and then succumbing to link-hopping (resulting in a few dozen open tabs). It seems to be ages since I know about LessWrong. Also, last December I attended a meetup.
Currently, I am working myself through the Sequences; although I will probably revisit at least some of the parts later. Especially those with probability theory.
It‘s not like I don‘t have at least basic knowledge about statistics and probabilities – I have math as AP for Gauß‘s sake! – it‘s just (at least for now) not my particular cup of tea (I tend to like abstract stuff more – algebra, number theory, set theory, I’ve dipped my toes in category theory – probability and statistics seems like so much calculating) and I think, I should go over this with more time and intent to practice; instead of (just?) trying to get a complete overview.
I‘m not (yet?) used to explicitly calculate how certain I should be about whatever. -- I’m planning on starting a journal for that particular purpose, and also doing a deep dive… some time… but I don’t know when I’ll actually get to that, especially considering my already way-to-long to-do-list. Also, perhaps I should learn estimating probabilities (and betting) properly first, I don’t know?
My interests tend to be quite broad, but very much aligned with this site and its orbit—this might actually partially be a chicken-and-egg-problem; this site might actually have influenced me quite a bit.
I originally planned to finish the sequences first before I write anything at all here; but that might take a lot of time and I’m starting to think that that might be a bad idea...
On the other hand, I don’t know exactly what I could contribute just yet, except for maybe one other comment. But I think, that will be alright in time—one comment at a time.
...I don’t quite know what to write, but feel free to ask me what you would like to know!
Best regards,
smiley314
Welcome :) Best of skill with reading The Sequences. And yeah, in the meantime do keep your eye out for anywhere that you can contribute something with a comment. See you around.