Currently going through a MBA program, slowly unlearning many of the habits I've picked up as an Individual contributor and began to look at the big picture.
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#22Reinforcement Learning :-
1. https://courses.dibya.online/courses/1690878/lectures/383852... [done]
2. https://www.deeplearningbook.org/ [currently reading]
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#23too many things at once.
tbh I feel very scattered. I really need to pick one or two things and focus.
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#24Dating. Or, trying. Harder than I thought, and every attempt I make it always seems to go the direction of signing up for one of these online dating services, which I originally wanted to avoid, because privacy is important to me.
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#25- I'm learning about the format (sections) of executable machine code files.
- I'm learning about love, e.g. how different ppl express their affections and what they expect from others they love.
- I'm learning about Stoicism and Cynicism (Hellenistic philosophy).
- I'm restudying nursing, so I can go back to work.
- I'm trying to understand myself.
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#26- Quantum computing via https://quantum.country/
- Cooking via YouTube (Food Wishes w/ Chef John, and Kenji Lopez Alt's channel)
- ML model architectures (AI Coffee Break, and Yannic Kilcher's channels)
- Exploring different ways of thinking about and responses to the question: What is the meaning of life? (I don't think there is one, so it's more about how we derive one for ourselves.)
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#27Dating. Or, trying. Harder than I thought, and every attempt I make it always seems to go the direction of signing up for one of these online dating services, which I originally wanted to avoid, because privacy is important to me.
You might find Lex Fridman's conversation[0] with David Buss interesting.
[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sndW9hzX-wA
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#28Two things mainly:
- Evolutionary software architectures
- Refreshing Data Structures and Algorithms for fun
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#29Critical thinking, as it applies to the practice of software development.
Reading/watch list:
- Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, by Diane F. Halpern
- Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic, by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Robert J. Fogelin
- Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
- Evidence-based Software Engineering - http://knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/ESEUR.pdf
- A Philosophy of Software Design, by John Ousterhout
- https://www.coursera.org/learn/mindware
This is research for a book I'm writing on that topic.
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#30CS 436: Distributed Computer Systems
I started with MIT's course but realized a few pieces of the puzzle are missing in my model of the web, this course is better for noobs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KFPWkK0bI&list=PLawkBQ15ND...