Got up at 7:30, drove myself to the chiropractor at 8 and got home by 9. Morning routine 9-10 (exercise, swim).
Setup a math writing beeminder goal. I really want to start finishing my projects.
10-12 Writing up axler solutions, did a lot of section 3d and improved my understanding! A short summary of what I learned (for my own future reference)
- Using direct sums to make elegant arguments without reference to bases (see 3d/4)
- That is invertible if and only if and are invertible, and more importantly that this can be extended by induction (see 3d/13)
Most of the time was spent on 3d/4, the other exercises I did pretty easily (around 10m each)
12:00-12:30 Messing around
12:30-1:10 Drive brothers to the ymca
1:10-1:50 Chatting on discord, taught someone about the rationals being countable and learned that squids have shells in their heads (wtf?)
1:50-2:40 Lesswrong clone, implemented a html template tag which does basic escaping like lit-html
2:40-3:30 Get brothers and drive them home
3:30 - 4:10 Worked on a (bad) javascript hover link preview for my axler solutions project. Haven't published it as it was too buggy
Here's what it looks like though
4:10-5:00 Reading random css stuff, learned about CSS filter and some color stuff. Learned the yak shaving term. I'm realizing now you can do a good amount of image editing in pure css, which is interesting.
5:00-6:00 Trying to debug wierd popup css bug, an absolute positioned element messing with page flow. Diden't figure it out but did improve my understanding of css somewhat.
6:00-7:00 Eat dinner and chat on discord
7:00-7:20 Found a great physics youtuber, got a vague idea of how lagrangian and hamiltonian mechanics work. Tomorrow I'll spend some time studying physics
7:20-7:40 Setup md-img-paste for vim and fixed my journal setup
7:40-8:40 Journal
Overall an okay day. Today will be the last day I do this timestamp based journaling since it takes up too much time and it isn't very readable.
Things I'll do better
- Time box programming tasks. spending hours on stupid css bugs isn't a smart use of time
- Work on more important stuff / be more focused! I have a big backlog of ideas, the lesswrong clone and random webdev messing around can wait.
Edit (11pm): I spent an hour reading lesswrong, found a bunch of really good stuff I'll continue reading tomorrow.
Primarily 1 and 2 will be critical for me. especially the advice to "pair up" with another person learning the material (ala study group)
Also really important advice: I need to start using anki more for ladr so I remember the material.
It's motivating to see someone able to read and review a textbook a month. I think I can do the same if I spend ~3-5h/day on it.