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 ;-)
Posted by: alex | October 27, 2007 at 10:06 PM
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 :)
Posted by: Brandon Reinhart | October 27, 2007 at 10:25 PM
I live within driving distance of New York City. I do not plan to attend any such event in California in person.
Posted by: Doug S. | October 28, 2007 at 12:05 AM
I was only proposing an informal meetup, not an international conference.
Posted by: Eliezer Yudkowsky | October 28, 2007 at 12:13 AM
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.
Posted by: Robin Hanson | October 28, 2007 at 09:20 AM
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.
Posted by: Alex | October 28, 2007 at 11:27 AM
While we're at it... central North Carolina?
Posted by: Nick Tarleton | October 28, 2007 at 01:56 PM
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.
Posted by: Bob | October 28, 2007 at 05:11 PM
I'm up in Sonoma County -- how about something teleconferenced via Skype, or something multipoint?
Posted by: Michael M. Butler | October 28, 2007 at 10:51 PM
Butler, I'm near Sonoma Cy. Send me an email sometime.
Posted by: Richard Hollerith | October 29, 2007 at 12:18 AM
Looks like there had been 52 responses before me.. I hope I am free to attend (I'm in Berkeley..)
Posted by: Pete Carlton | October 29, 2007 at 12:38 AM
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?
Posted by: Recovering irrationalist | October 29, 2007 at 10:50 AM
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
Posted by: Gustavo Lacerda | October 29, 2007 at 11:22 PM
If we are 15 or less, I can volunteer my companies offices in Foster City.
-Gene
Posted by: hoffmang | October 31, 2007 at 05:29 PM
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.
Posted by: Mike K | November 02, 2007 at 11:38 AM