First a suggestion: I think it would make sense to change the topic to “Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010&2011)”. I was confused whether I should post here or on the original “Welcome to Less Wrong!”
Then to the actual topic of my comment:
Hello!
I’ve been lurking a couple of months now, the rationality mini camp finally activated me to do something instead of just passively soaking up information. I wasn’t selected, but I definitely do not regret applying for the camp.
Some info about myself, I grew up on the south coast of Finland and went to a Swedish-language school. Consequently I’m bilingual (Fin&Swe) and also acquired a strong interest in languages—besides the aforementioned I speak English, German, Russian and French. My other hobbies are skiing (both downhill and cross-country), travelling and car repairing.
LW was the biggest reason why I bought myself a Kindle—namely I wanted to read the sequences during commuting but carrying the laptop arround was too tiresome. Thanks to jb55 for making eBook-versions of them! I’ve made my way through around 80% of the sequences, although I’ll have to reread at least the quantum mechanics one with pen and paper at hand.
My location is in France, 2 km from the Swiss city of Basel. I’m currently doing an exchange year in ETH Zurich, but the apartment prices in Zurich together with the fact that my fiancee studies in Basel led us to choose France instead. My main subject is operations research, in a nutshell statistics/mathematics flavoured with lots of simulating. I’m very interested in decision analysis and decision theory. The information about cognitive biases on LW has exceeded that what I learned on the university course about decision analysis, don’t know though whether this tells more about the course or LW… Furthermore the self-development interest and striving (Tsuyoky Naritai!) is something I share with the community.
Looking forward to summer meetups in Southern Finland! (Might organize one myself once I’ve relocated to the area)
First a suggestion: I think it would make sense to change the topic to “Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010&2011)”. I was confused whether I should post here or on the original “Welcome to Less Wrong!”
Then to the actual topic of my comment:
Hello!
I’ve been lurking a couple of months now, the rationality mini camp finally activated me to do something instead of just passively soaking up information. I wasn’t selected, but I definitely do not regret applying for the camp.
Some info about myself, I grew up on the south coast of Finland and went to a Swedish-language school. Consequently I’m bilingual (Fin&Swe) and also acquired a strong interest in languages—besides the aforementioned I speak English, German, Russian and French. My other hobbies are skiing (both downhill and cross-country), travelling and car repairing.
LW was the biggest reason why I bought myself a Kindle—namely I wanted to read the sequences during commuting but carrying the laptop arround was too tiresome. Thanks to jb55 for making eBook-versions of them! I’ve made my way through around 80% of the sequences, although I’ll have to reread at least the quantum mechanics one with pen and paper at hand.
My location is in France, 2 km from the Swiss city of Basel. I’m currently doing an exchange year in ETH Zurich, but the apartment prices in Zurich together with the fact that my fiancee studies in Basel led us to choose France instead. My main subject is operations research, in a nutshell statistics/mathematics flavoured with lots of simulating. I’m very interested in decision analysis and decision theory. The information about cognitive biases on LW has exceeded that what I learned on the university course about decision analysis, don’t know though whether this tells more about the course or LW… Furthermore the self-development interest and striving (Tsuyoky Naritai!) is something I share with the community.
Looking forward to summer meetups in Southern Finland! (Might organize one myself once I’ve relocated to the area)
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