i filled up my first math register in 5 years.
in other news: context switching sucks.
my quest for my north star continues, but i’m still keeping myself busy. maybe too busy. for the last few days, i’ve felt like i’m running a day behind everything. messing up my carefully crafted sleep schedule didn’t help. it might have even caused it. i also got back on social
it’s okay, i’m back on track. 5 am everyday.
what i realised is that i don’t feel tired when i’m working on one thing for a stretch, i feel tired when i’ve done that and have to context switch to work on another thing for a stretch, knowing i’ll have to switch context back.
i’m hoping as time goes, i get better at this. often, a change of environment or some dose of caffeine has enough activation energy to load up the problem in the head.
math hasn’t been affected. i reached the sapphire league in math academy for a week. but i couldn’t make the cut (demoted by 22XP).
here’s what my knowledge graph of all the math concepts i’ve been studying. darker shade of blue represents more mastery.
i also filled up my first math register in 5 years! and i mean really filled it because i wasn’t taking unnecessary notes. just solving questions.
most of my non-math time was spent making this little AI tool and working on the research paper i’m helping out with.
both are such different projects, one was fully backend coding + AI, iterating on product feedback, while the other involved reading a bunch of papers, trying to get Grafana to work, and parsing lots of logs.
it feels extremely rewarding to work on both but i’ve learned not to overcommit and leave some downtime for myself.
i also (finally) organised the group study session in epoch 0. now that sleep + routine is back on track, i hope to do these more,, routinely
i’m waiting to hear back from the interact fellowship about my application. fingers crossed!
i’m also gonna hop on a call with paras chopra for turing’s dream, an ai hacker house here in ‘uru. i haven’t had much time to think of what i’d want to work on continuously for 6 weeks, i feel like i’d much prefer working with or under someone on a call project because that alleviates the “idea” part away and leaves me with the learning to do.
to-do: think about this more before joining the call.
writing this was a good exercise as my brain reads the next set of problems from my slow slow disk into the cache.
see yah!