A little on the later side but here is my plan for the second quarter of my Personal Phd (Oct-Nov-Dec 2015).
Computer Science track:
1. Finish reading Programming Collective Intelligence book (Chapters 6 to 12)
– why? First 5 chapters have been great with putting Machine Learning in the context of other ways of solving problems, I am looking forward to the rest.
2. Do rest of the Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng on Coursera (Weeks 6-11)
– why? First 5 weeks have been super useful and has instilled good basics including the math, so I will continue with it. I also like the quiz format and programming exercises as it forces me to pay attention.
(I am pausing on NYU Automatic Speech Recognition course as it is goes over my head right now).
Linguistics track:
3. Previous quarter I focused on brushing up on German. This time I actually want to focus on English as opposed to yet another foreign language. So item for this quarter is to read book Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior.
– why? Here are the reasons: 1. At least in my personal experience so much of language understanding comes from understanding the culture. 2. My boyfriend is English 🙂 3. The topic sounds fascinating and this is my curriculum so I can make it whatever I would like it to be 🙂 yay, the benefits of a “personal” learning path 🙂
Paper Reading
4. Read 10 more scientific papers on Speech Recognition.
Writing:
5. Write an update every other week.
This quarter is going to be tight with starting quite late and having Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, but will see what I can do 🙂 (during holidays I may get more reading done while on planes, etc., but not any studying).