Bay Area Bayesians Unite!
Robin Hanson has his fellow GMU economists to talk to, but I’m not associated with a university and I live way out in the boondocks: the echoing emptiness of, er, Silicon Valley.
Overcoming Bias gets over 2000 visitors per day. Surely some of you are from the Bay Area. Would you be interested in a Bay Area meetup of Overcoming Bias readers?
Polls after the jump.
If you’re interested at all, please vote in at least the closest-city poll.
Polls will be processed for a best-compromise value, not a binding
modal result.
If I get at least 30 responses, I’ll start looking into
meetup locations.
you should always have a dummy option in public internet polls. This will help weed out those who just have to vote, even if the choices are not applicable to them ;-)
As Alex says, just add an option for “lol, wut?” to every poll to weed out people who might otherwise vote randomly for the hell of it. :P
Should be an Austin, TX meet up. It’s like the Bay Area, but a hell of a lot more affordable :)
I live within driving distance of New York City. I do not plan to attend any such event in California in person.
I was only proposing an informal meetup, not an international conference.
I do as Eliezer says have my GMU colleagues to talk to, but even so we might consider having a DC area meetup sometime. Maybe we should see how the Bay Area version turns out first.
Central Ohio anyone?
It’s a lot like the Bay Area, or Austin, except well...
ok I’m deluding myself—it’s not at all like the Bay Area or Austin.
While we’re at it… central North Carolina?
At the risk of revealing my ignorance, at a meeting of Bayesians, who would do the talking? I would attend Eliezer’s gathering just to observe and absorb.
I’m up in Sonoma County—how about something teleconferenced via Skype, or something multipoint?
Butler, I’m near Sonoma Cy. Send me an email sometime.
Looks like there had been 52 responses before me.. I hope I am free to attend (I’m in Berkeley..)
A long way off yet… but given the hopefully growing correlation, how about another one at the time and town of the next Singularity Summit?
Nick: Look at http://www.stat.duke.edu/ . To paraphrase two CMU statisticians at once: if Bayesianism is a cult, Duke is its Sodom & Gomorrah.
Coincidentally or not: my blog and this blog are the first two Google hits to bayesian+sodom+and+gomorrah
If we are 15 or less, I can volunteer my companies offices in Foster City.
-Gene
What about a Boston/Cambridge-area meetup? This seems to be another area that would be appropriate for such a thing. Though, of course, no OB writers are from around here afaik.