I need to study more
Stuff I Learnt in 2019
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#12Maybe you could fit in some Category Theory in 2020.
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#13I like this. I think I am going to try to keep a list next year, and maybe it might somehow even help keep me on the path of learning.
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#14Learned quite a bit about: K8S, Kotlin, Android Architecture Components.
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#15I hate “learnt”
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#16I hate “learnt”
What do you hate about it?
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#17> I recently learnt that the Toeffili and Hadamard gates are universal for quantum computation. The description of these gates involve no complex numbers. Hmm, these are matrices so essentially complex numbers?
Correct. You can pretty much always replace complex numbers with 2x2 matrices.
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#18I hate “learnt”
What do you hate about it?
It sounds like an "ain't" version of learned. I just read this from Grammarly:
"Learnt and learned are both used as the past participle and past tense of the verb to learn. Learned is the generally accepted spelling in the United States and Canada, while the rest of the English-speaking world seems to prefer learnt."
Apparently I'm an egocentric American.
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#19What do I need to do to get on this level?
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#20Some kind of focus would do this young man well. Also thinking how to turn that all information into action or outcomes.
What would you recommend I focus on? I personally work on compilers as part of research, so that's "focus". My current broad goal is to learn all the parts of math that I feel might wind up becoming useful for applied math in the next 50-60 years. So no arithmetic geometry, yes algebraic geometry.