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I just had my wisdom teeth (all four) removed, and to help pass the time I've been working through Zed Shaw's 'Learn Python the Hard Way'. My end-goal is to have a few Python/Django projects in my portfolio come September.
- MIDI Controller-related stuff (just finished a hardware project, moving on to some new and advanced firmware mods for the Midifighter).
- 2D SciFi viking game, using a custom C++/Lua engine, using OpenGL 3 for graphics, Intel Threading Building Blocks for multicore, SDL 1.3 for windowing and input, GLM for math, Bullet for physics. Component entity system based. No audio yet.
- Backend web development for money.
- Tinkering with various bits and pieces: a Qt-based mini-dwarf-fortress type thing; programming language concepts; bitcoin related stuff...
Amount of time spent on each is roughly in the above order, from most time to least time.
Stuff to learn: numerical linear algebra, dictionary learning, Judea Pearl's Causality
Research: diffusion geometry for databases (?)
Have another project to start and need to decide if I use as a tool to learn Python by using django or if learning 2 new languages/frameworks at a time is a silly idea.
Building an app in Node.js, so will be learning that along with MongoDB. Have another project to start and need to decide if I use as a tool to learn Python by using django or if learning 2 new languages/frameworks at a time is a silly idea.
aiming to write some more http://www.privacypatterns.org so that I can talk about the project more widely.
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As for what I'm working on in the summer. If everything goes to plan.
- A directory of startup tools
- Brush up on my probability and statistics with the help of the Khan Academy and some text books.
- Then explore machine learning. Hope to go through the Stanford Machine learning video lectures. Then apply some of the modelling to the project above.
As for goals, I'd like to be ramen profitable with the tool/service directory.
If you want to beta test, sign up at http://hackharder.com/ (really ugly, gonna fix it soon).
Alpha testing has not yet started, but soon :)
I started my summer a bit early: In Feb. I quit my job and moved to Guatemala. Here I'm spending the mornings learning Spanish, and the afternoons playing with Rails and Javascript. After I finish my current project, I'd like to look some into iOS development.