Events

Saturday Meetup 5/14: Meetup idea brainstorming

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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Saturday Meetup 5/7: Estimation/Calibration practice with Wits and Wagers

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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Saturday Meetup 4/30: General Discussion, also don’t forget Eeyore’s

No specific topic this time, as the meetup happens at the same time as Eeyore’s birthday (Wikipedia), an Austin tradition that has been held back by the pandemic, which many members (including me) hope to attend. But if you come to the cafe, feel free to use this thread to announce where you have set up. If you

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