Daily Progress #1 - hit 200xp on mathacademy - worked on MLAB2 pre-exercises (github.com/Kiv/mlab2_pre_…) and learned about einops and einsum notation - researched which drone to buy for ML project (thanks to Mike Vegeto for giving me a shopping list)

Daily Progress #2 - crushing pomodoros with the boys - reading Where Mathematics Comes From by George Lakoff - 100xp on mathacademy - clear out flashcard backlog - some more MLAB machine learning exercises

Daily Progress #3 - i am king of pomodoros - no one can usurp emperor peabrain in the MA leaderboards - 131 xp on mathacademy, things are getting more difficult now - More MLAB machine learning exercises - can you solve the mini challenge 🤔 - Read 1/2 of an RNA-Based Theory of

Nice way to learn fundamentals of ML minitorch.github.io

Daily Progress #4 - faced strong resistance from pomos today despite reinforcements - 100xp on mathacademy - finished MLAB pre exercises, ready to move on, first exercise is to make a simple raytracer - fun reading: The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine

"My weight is confidential. But if you wish to obtain my volume, you have only to multiply the surface of my base by my height and divide by three" - Fernand Point (found in The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine by Rudolph Chelminski)

Idea: AI book club where you aren't allowed to read the book beforehand, instead you all show up, upload the PDF of the book into GPT/Claude and spend 20 mins asking questions to understand the ideas before discussing

Daily Progress #5 - slower progress past 2 days because i was forced to leave my cave and interact in the "real world" - 88 xp on mathacademy - started MLAB simple ray tracer - extracting nugs from The Enigma of Reason for an essay (excellent read so far)

Daily Progress #6 - it would be an exaggeration to say that i cooked, but i definitely unfolded my chefs hat and oiled the pan - 99xp on mathacademy - started simple ray tracer - smashed pomodoros - read chapter on the Inklings (Tolkein, CS Lewis, etc) in Collaborative Circles

Daily Progress #7 - wake at 4am 😢 nap at 9.30 am 🤩 - 103xp on mathacademy - bunch of writing - reading Collaborative Circles -- very nice book