My name is Taiyo Inoue. I am a 32, male, father of a 1 year old son, married, and a math professor. I enjoy playing the acoustic guitar (American primitive fingerpicking), playing games, and soaking up the non-poisonous bits of the internet.
I went through 12 years of math study without ever really learning that probability theory is the ultimate applied math. I played poker for a bit during the easy money boom for fun and hit on basic probability theory which the 12 year old me could have understood, but I was ignorant of the Bayesian framework for epistemology until I was 30 years old. This really annoys me.
I blame my education for leaving me ignorant about something so fundamental, but mostly I blame myself for not trying harder to learn about fundamentals on my own.
This site is really good for remedying that second bit. I have a goal to help fix the first bit—I think we call it “raising the sanity waterline”.
As a father, I also want to teach my son so he doesn’t have the same regret and annoyance at my age.
My name is Taiyo Inoue. I am a 32, male, father of a 1 year old son, married, and a math professor. I enjoy playing the acoustic guitar (American primitive fingerpicking), playing games, and soaking up the non-poisonous bits of the internet.
I went through 12 years of math study without ever really learning that probability theory is the ultimate applied math. I played poker for a bit during the easy money boom for fun and hit on basic probability theory which the 12 year old me could have understood, but I was ignorant of the Bayesian framework for epistemology until I was 30 years old. This really annoys me.
I blame my education for leaving me ignorant about something so fundamental, but mostly I blame myself for not trying harder to learn about fundamentals on my own.
This site is really good for remedying that second bit. I have a goal to help fix the first bit—I think we call it “raising the sanity waterline”.
As a father, I also want to teach my son so he doesn’t have the same regret and annoyance at my age.
I’m just realizing this myself; probability theory is epistemology.
Hm, may be a catchy line, but don’t confuse the question with a particular answer...