Issa Rice
This is the website of myself, Issa Rice. This site stores biographical information about me, but it is also a personal wiki or open notebook of sorts; anything that doesn’t belong elsewhere ends up on here, and as a result the content on here can be of admittedly low-quality: unfinished, written in multiple voices over the span of years, wrong, or otherwise unsuitable for public consumption. Embarrassing as it is, I like to “think and work in the open” so others can benefit from my thoughts and critique them.
On this site
- About me, about this site
- Contact me: the best way to contact me is via email at riceissa@gmail.com
- Account names I use on various websites
- List of things I have worked on
- Software I use
- My pages related to the University of Washington
- Notes on computing (Unix-like operating systems, programming, etc.)
- Notes on math (old)
- Pages related to education
- A mirror of my Quora answers
- Information about my involvement with the effective altruism movement
- Philanthropy:
- Open Philanthropy Project non-grant funding
- GiveWell staff growth
- Against Malaria Foundation
- Total spending in global health
- Charities calculation (some data collection on the number of charities tracked under various criteria)
Summary of what I worked on: September 2017
For completed tasks, see the work page.
In addition, during September I spent time learning about and taking notes on development economics. You can see my contributions on Vipul Naik’s Development Economics Subwiki as well as a Summary table of views on development economics that I started on Timelines Wiki (that will be moved to Development Economics Subwiki soon).
I also spent some time working on a Timeline of the rationality community, but this is not yet complete.
I started a Timeline of decision theory that I hope to complete at some point.
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time reading about consciousness lately. I hope to begin producing some output from this soon but I am still figuring out my options.
Activity feeds
Here are some activity feeds that track what I’ve been working on:
- My GitHub contribution activity, including my commits to this website’s repository
- My contributions to the Timelines Wiki (Git version with more incremental changes)
- My public GitHub Gists
- Summary of my contract work for Vipul Naik (more detailed page with tables)
- List of pages on this site, sorted by date of last substantive revision
- List of all pages on this site, ordered by the date of last modification
- Recent changes on the Cause Prioritization Wiki
- Recent Quora questions (I occasionally ask questions on Quora while I work)