math chatrooms

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[Iocta]

In various topics I've self-studied, I've found it very helpful to be able to quickly get unstuck by asking in a chat room. The low response latency makes for efficient learning. I want to self-study probability, and I'm wondering if anybody knows a chat room (somewhere on the internet) where that would be on topic. The Lean Zulip is great of course, but the last time I tried, it was too much of a struggle to learn probability and lean and mathlib's measure theory all at once. Can you think of a place where I could ask probability questions as I'm going through a book?

[Mario Carneiro]

math.stackexchange.com is pretty good

[Mario Carneiro]

it's not a chatroom but you can still get answers in < 1 hour most of the time

[Mario Carneiro]

there is also a chatroom though, for very short questions

[Kyle Miller]

The question box there also has a feature that as you write your question, a sidebar of related questions shows up. I've had a couple things answered that way.

[Julian Berman]

For completeness, Libera (an IRC network) also still has a ##math room with ~600 people in it at any given point in time -- whether people respond or how sophisticated of a question you can ask is sometimes hit or miss, but yeah it's an option.

[Iocta]

Thanks all.

[Lucas Teixeira]

Iocta
I've found that creating/joining a discord server helps for this kind of thing. I am also interested in starting to study probability. PM me if you'd be interested in talking more about potentially going through it together.