We met about a week ago to watch Khraniteli, a Soviet television play miniseries based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. For those who aren’t familiar with the movie discussion meetings, every month we agree on a movie to watch and then meet to discuss it. All kinds of movies are suggested, […]
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The votes are in and SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard will be the next book that we are reading together. Our first meeting reading the book will be the Wednesday after next, at 7:00PM CST on Wednesday, May 18th. Everyone should read the prologue and first chapter of the book before
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Nominations are in and voting can now begin! You can vote using the following link: https://strawpoll.com/polls/3RnYp4Avxye The voting will close on Sunday, May 8th at 8am (2022/04/08 08:00:00 CDT). After that our first meeting to read the first section of the book will be one week from the following Wednesday at 7pm (2022/04/18). Looking forward to
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The Austin Less Wrong Book Club recently finished reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, so it’s now time to nominate and vote on the next book we will be reading. For those who aren’t familiar with the book club, every week we choose a section of a book to read (usually a few chapters)
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Since we haven’t done this in a while, let’s have another meetup where times in our lives where we were surprised — times we thought we had a solid model of the world and it turned out to predict the opposite of what really happened. It’s a great opportunity to review why your world model
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Text Shlomo for the address. His phone number is 718-787-7707. He asks everyone bring games because he doesn’t have any. Official start time is 7pm. We hope to see you then!
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With the larger attendance and variety of newcomers, let’s use this change to share activities for future Saturday meetups and other events. If there’s an activity we’re not doing, or not doing enough, make the case for it! Previous activities include: lightning talks, calibration practice with Wits and Wagers, Taboo-ing practice, favorite articles, discussion of specific articles,
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The group dinner will be held at Tyson’s Tacos at 4905 Airport Blvd. Official start time is 7pm. We hope to see you then!
Time to judge our ability to make well-calibrated predictions using Wits and Wagers to judge whether your ability to form estimates is well-calibrated! In the game, you make predictions on numerical trivial values (e.g. how many cars were registered in the US in 1920). We’ll also take time to share how we came up with the numbers,
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The group dinner will be held at Playland Skate Center 8822 Mccann Dr. Official start time is 7pm. We hope to see you then!
