I admit defeat.. but only this week.
It has been a month since I have started my Personal PhD project. I set a schedule for myself of how much course material I wanted to cover per week.
I have been on vacation for a week now. Before I went I thought I will have so much free time I will get so much done!
Alas, that didn’t happen. Visiting home in Latvia is a lot of work, a lot of people to catch up, plus jetlag doesn’t help either and I am not as productive during the few moments when I do have free time.
So for this update I didn’t get done as much as I hoped. Now, the temptation of the perfectionist was to try to finish everything and only then send out the updateafterwards.
But one of the goals for Personal PhD was writing and sending regular updates, so here I am admitting that that this week I am behind schedule. However I will have a free weekend in couple of weeks, so I will be able to catch up then.
Q1 Curriculum
1. Andrew Ng Coursera course on Machine Learning: I have started week two when I should have already finished it.
2. Automatic Speech Recognition class (youtube link): Have watched three lectures when I should have already have watched four lectures.
3. Reviewing German: unfortunately missed some days and other days I studied very little. But the net effect I think is still better than if I hadn’t reviewed at all. I am flying to Germany on Tuesday so will see how it goes then.
4. Paper reading: still reading more papers. Plane rides are perfect for that! Haven’t had a chance yet to set up some sort of system.
5. Writing: It would have been so much easier to not write this now and only share the successes, but I think its only fair to share both the ups and downs (and perhaps useful to you).
Machine Learning In The News
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