Announcement for the next Houston meetup.
Cog
Karma: 49
Friday or Saturday might be future possibilities—aligning our schedule with TX/RX makes that difficult sometimes, but there’s no reason why we have to meet in the hackerspace. If several people end up wanting other times, we can move things around. I wasn’t expecting much interest outside of Houston, so I didn’t think that later Sunday would have been a problem.
If anyone else in the area wants to come by, but has times they can’t make it, let me know.
We will probably have another next week at the same time. I will PM you whenever I settle upon new dates.
I won’t claim it was hugely successful—no one else showed up, but I did get a couple of people at my hackerspace interested, and some vague promises of people coming next week. Still, I think there’s potential here. We’ll see.
Thanks for the up votes. The meet up post is up. I look forward to becoming a more active part of the less wrong community.
A friend (Dvorak) and I are going to start a Houston meetup group, but he already runs a hackerspace and can’t really take on more organizational duties. I’m a long time lurker, and would be mostly in charge of organizing the group. Unfortunately, I don’t have the Karma to post on the discussion area. Can I beg an up vote or two off of someone?
If you can come, we’ll be happy to have you.
As for what our group does, if you mean the Hackerspace, the website is at :
http://www.txrxlabs.org/
If you mean the Less Wrong group, then we do not have a specific goal as of yet. I was hoping to meet people and get a feel for what lesswrongians might want to do. I would like to do a reading group, possibly with Jaynes’ “Probability Theory: The Logic of Science”, or Pearle’s “Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent systems”. I’d also like to do a basic self help thing akin to the New York group. Davorak and I have tossed around other ideas:
Paranoid debating MIT course in street fighting mathematics Stanford course on the biological basis of behavior Board games
Your bitcoin rig would definitely be interesting. We have a 96 Blade computational cluster (mostly working), and have been looking for something to stress it—BitCoin has been tossed around a lot. It certainly would be interesting. We’re not sure if we could operate it profitably, but someone who has had experience with it would definitely have people listening.