Goals

This is to track ongoing personal goals. At some point I should add some historical goals here too.

Practices (see Results vs Practices

• No internet – 4 weeks (since 2019-07-20). (Previous record: about 70 days).
• Writing 3x / week, at least 5 minutes each time – just started (since 2019-08-17).
• Home study 2x / week, at least 1 hour each time – 4 weeks (since 2019-07-20).
• Math/CS eclectic reading 3x/week, at least 15 minutes each time – 2 weeks (since 2019-08-03).

Study Plans

I really like making plans for things to study. Sometimes I even finish!

To clarify the difference between this and the reading list:

• reading is me going through a book and (hopefully) remembering some content.
• studying is me actively putting effort into long term recall. This usually means homework exercises and exams, but can also be oral exams and presentations, spaced repetition, etc.

CS

• Skeina, Algorithm Design Manual
  • Ch 1 complete (2019-08-03)
• C++ programming practice
• Rust programming practice

followed by

• MIT OCW 6.006 => 6.046
• Cormen et al, Introduction to Algorithms

Historical / Completed

2019

• MIT 14.01
• MIT 18.650

2018

I bought a bunch of books but didn’t get through most of them.

Skimmed:

• AI (Russell–Norvig)
• ML (Murphy, Hastie et al)
• Statistics (Rice, Ch 9-12)

And a brief, aborted stab at Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming (hah!).

This is around when I realized it’s much harder to study while working full-time and not actively required to. This list is one way to start fixing things…

2017

Mid-2017 is when I finished my PhD in pure math. Before then all my studying energy went into getting that done. But afterwards I did get through some things.

• Probability (MIT OCW 6.041)
• Statistics (DeGroot–Schervish, Ch 6-8)
• CS and Finance interview prep (Gayle, Crack)