Good day, despite getting up late (8am) and only starting work by 11am (spent ~1h fixing our ipod and putting the hpmor audiobook on it).
- 1h Analysis, merged section 4.2 and worked a bit on 5.3
- 30 min Bypass analytics blockers for my site via an nginx redirect, basically serve analytics from a different url to avoid the block.
location = /a.js { rewrite ^(.*)$ /js/plausible.js break; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000; }
- 2h 20 min Study functional analysis. It's insanely awesome, specifically Exercises 2.11 and 2.14 from "A friendly introduction to functional analysis"
- 1h Reading Eleuther AI's
#math
channel. Found some cool things, like Michael Betancourt's blog, how Softmax comes from the Boltzman distribution (and the tempature parameter literally means physical tempature) - 5pm-7pm Eat dinner, do dishes, watch Youtube (yt ~1h. Bad!)
- 7:30 Journal, get off computer
Good day considering how late I got up/to work (missed ~4h work 7-11 if I were maximally productive)
Goals for tomorrow (minimum stuff I must do):
- Work at least 2h on analysis solutions. So many people are using my project it's scary (hundreds in the last month, according to my analytics). I've got to finish it!
- Spend 2h studying Calculus on manifolds for koala's reading group
- Spend 1h drafting a LessWrong post on "abstraction exercises" (taking an abstract math concept and finding several examples, similar to framing exercises)
Stuff beyond that I'll probably do:
- Study logic, "Godel without tears" seems like a book I could read extremely fast, since it's far below my level (kinda like basic physics)
- Study more functional analysis. Its like crack, I'm finally addicted after doing 2.11 and 2.14.