Hello Everyone, Now that we have a fancy new website (Thanks Tim!) I will start announcing events here and prefer to retire the Google calendar we’ve been using. Events will be consolidated here on this calendar. This week’s Tuesday event is at Playland Skate Center on 8822 McCann Dr. 7 PM same as always.
May 2022 Playland Skate Center and New Calendar Read More »
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
Saturday Meetup 5/21: Stories of surprise Read More »
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!
Group Game Night: 5/17 Read More »
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,
Saturday Meetup 5/14: Meetup idea brainstorming Read More »
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,
Saturday Meetup 5/7: Estimation/Calibration practice with Wits and Wagers Read More »
The group dinner will be held at Playland Skate Center 8822 Mccann Dr. Official start time is 7pm. We hope to see you then!
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
Saturday Meetup 4/30: General Discussion, also don’t forget Eeyore’s Read More »
The group dinner will be held at DeSano Pizzaria 8000 Burnet Rd. Official start time is 7pm. We hope to see you then!
Reminder: This is in addition to the governance follow-up in the same cafe, at 6:30pm. We’re overdue for a session of sharing what we’re working on, where we support each other in our goals and achievements. So at this meetup, we will once again share what we’re working on and use the chance to provide each other
Saturday Meetup 4/23: What are you working on? Read More »
