"I'm a bad computer scientist, a bad statistician, and an ok poker player. But at the nexus of those three skillsets, I have a great idea for measuring skill..."
"Did you have any topics in mind? I was thinking of "starting" one for either algorithms or machine learning. More a way to commit me to reading the books..."
"i have 17 years of programming exp in various unix envs w/pascal,c,c++,smalltalk,java,perl and ruby. i'm mired rewriting a php/cake/mysql system as ruby/rails/m..."
"Hi. I'm a CS prof, but I have trouble finding time to read broadly (beyond some narrow lit review for a paper). This might be a good incentive… great idea!"