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  • 62 references 50 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Italian, Portuguese
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Scientist ( machine learning, social sciences and health)
  • PhD ANU (machine learning and incentives)
  • From Argentina
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About Me

So far I have gotten along well in general with: refugees, dancers, mathematicians, medical doctors, musicians, artists, woodworkers, builders, and those " traveling by providence" (using no/minimal money).

I am currently in quite a nomadic existence and often spend time in Barcelona, Berlin, Gorzow , Lisbon and want to spend more time in the Canary islands and Madeira. I can probably manage to host in any of them; usually have a couch I can spare, but also happy to split bigger Airbnb houses or apartments with other people working and traveling.

my ig is el_nikete feel free to message me there, notifications here are not always timely. If you want to have the full range of nerdy topics of conversation then feel free to skim around https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_2Z3DcoAAAAJ&hl=en

My long term goal is helping in furthering the understanding of humanity; in particular collective cognition, how we perceive and think together about the world. A short text that shaped my understanding of how to live life was: http://bactra.org/Spinoza/TIE/

A passage that resonates with me is:
“the critical issue is reciprocity - being truly felt and heard by those around us, feeling that we’re held in someone else’s mind and heart for our physiology to heal and grow, we need a visceral feeling of safety. no doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love”. (The body keeps the score)

I was born and raised in Buenos Aires. I love long walks and conversations with interesting strangers, some of which have turned into excellent friendships. I find human group behaviour endlessly fascinating, and enjoy both very ethnographic as well as very quantitative perspectives on it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've spent a lot of time surfing friends couches, and have some amazing memories from hosting people. One thing I enjoy is it adds diversity to the people that I interact with.

I'm very keen to host people that like making things. So if you are keen to paint, code, draw, dance, play music, build/recycle furniture/boats/shelters, do mention it!

Interests

Music: currently learning to play the sax, messing with synths
Dance: I love to dance, tend to prefer things that are freer / more unstructured.
Ethnomusicology: I have a small collection of instruments, and love to play more.
Photography; mostly as a vehicle for political journalism, havent done much in a while sadly.
Visual arts; I've tried to paint a few times, im terrible at it, through still find it interesting. I did some sculpting a while ago, would love to do more.
Math; I know a little, id love to learn more.

  • dancing
  • boating
  • music
  • medicine
  • science
  • dance
  • saxophone
  • synthesizers
  • boatbuilding

Music, Movies, and Books

books;
The Secrets of our Success, Henrich
La Casa Verde, La Fiesta del Chivo, Mario Vargas LLosa (Green House, Feast of the Goat)
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace,
Rayuela, Julio Cortazar
Causality, Judea Pearl
The Sciences of the Artificial, Herbert Simon

music;
Max Roach, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, The Weather Report, Art Blakey, Archie Shepp
Zakir Hussain, Ravi Shankar,
Dr John, John Lee Hooker, The Band
The JB's, Parliament-Funkadelic,
Gilad Atzmon, Moondog,
Hugh Masekela, Fela Kuti, The
Skatalites, Lee Scratch Perry
Astor Piazzolla, Charly Garcia, Raul Barboza
Im pretty interested in ethnomusicology, and love discovering new types of music (particularly acoustic) I have not heard before.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach some very rudimentary music and are very keen to learn more.

I know a fair bit about the behavioural sciences, through also keen to learn more. I wish I knew more biology. I know and enjoy teaching both statistics and math. Currently learning about boat building and construction more generally, as well as starting to play with synths and sequencers.

I would love to learn more acrobatics/dance lyfts/aerial/rope skills, And would like to improve my music rhythm.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can try to be handy in construction/repairs, i can help with computer things, I can share music and dance (contact, 5rythms, ecstatic).

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom

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