I am Yan Zhang, a mathematics grad student specializing in combinatorics at MIT (and soon to work at UC Berkeley after graduation) and co-founder of Vivana.com. I was involved with building the first year of SPARC. There, I met many cool people at CFAR, for which I’m now a curicculum consultant.
I don’t know much about LW but have liked some of the things I have read here; AnnaSalamon described me as a “street rationalist” because my own rationality principles are home-grown from a mix of other communities and hobbies. In that sense, I’m happy to step foot into this “mainstream dojo” and learn your language.
Recently Anna suggested I may want to cross-post something I wrote to LW and I’ve always wanted to get to know the community better, so this is the first step, I suppose. I look forward to learning from all of you.
Haha hey QC. Remind me sometime to learn the “get ridiculously high points in karma-based communities and learn a lot” metaskill from you… you seem to be off to a good start here too ;)
Step 1 is to spend too much time posting comments. I’m not sure I recommend this to someone whose time is valuable. I would like to see you share your “street rationalist” skills here, though!
I am Yan Zhang, a mathematics grad student specializing in combinatorics at MIT (and soon to work at UC Berkeley after graduation) and co-founder of Vivana.com. I was involved with building the first year of SPARC. There, I met many cool people at CFAR, for which I’m now a curicculum consultant.
I don’t know much about LW but have liked some of the things I have read here; AnnaSalamon described me as a “street rationalist” because my own rationality principles are home-grown from a mix of other communities and hobbies. In that sense, I’m happy to step foot into this “mainstream dojo” and learn your language.
Recently Anna suggested I may want to cross-post something I wrote to LW and I’ve always wanted to get to know the community better, so this is the first step, I suppose. I look forward to learning from all of you.
Welcome! It’s good to see you here.
Haha hey QC. Remind me sometime to learn the “get ridiculously high points in karma-based communities and learn a lot” metaskill from you… you seem to be off to a good start here too ;)
Step 1 is to spend too much time posting comments. I’m not sure I recommend this to someone whose time is valuable. I would like to see you share your “street rationalist” skills here, though!