Ask HN: What personal projects/goals are people working on for this summer? Well, school's out for summer, but the learning doesn't stop. Jobs and internships aside, what personal projects/goals do you hope to accomplish during Summer 11'? --- I just had my wisdom teeth (all four) removed, and to help pass the time I've been working through Zed Shaw's 'Learn Python the Hard Way'. My end-goal is to have a few Python/Django projects in my portfolio come September. |
If you have some free time, can you give a run-down of your experience so far?
mike [at] logicalmike [dot] com
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As for what I'm working on in the summer. If everything goes to plan.
- A directory of startup tools
- Brush up on my probability and statistics with the help of the Khan Academy and some text books.
- Then explore machine learning. Hope to go through the Stanford Machine learning video lectures. Then apply some of the modelling to the project above.
As for goals, I'd like to be ramen profitable with the tool/service directory.
I'm interested in learning more about this "directory of startup tools" you mentioned. Will it be a self-compiled directory, or something more collaborative in nature?
Then will spend some time to work out the algorithms to do the automatic curation of the services & tools. Hence my interest into exploring probably & statistics modelling / machine learning further.
I'll send you an email.
If you want to beta test, sign up at http://hackharder.com/ (really ugly, gonna fix it soon).
Alpha testing has not yet started, but soon :)
- learn the 4 balls mills mess juggling pattern (almost there)
- become fluent in German (still quite far)
- MIDI Controller-related stuff (just finished a hardware project, moving on to some new and advanced firmware mods for the Midifighter).
- 2D SciFi viking game, using a custom C++/Lua engine, using OpenGL 3 for graphics, Intel Threading Building Blocks for multicore, SDL 1.3 for windowing and input, GLM for math, Bullet for physics. Component entity system based. No audio yet.
- Backend web development for money.
- Tinkering with various bits and pieces: a Qt-based mini-dwarf-fortress type thing; programming language concepts; bitcoin related stuff...
Amount of time spent on each is roughly in the above order, from most time to least time.
Have another project to start and need to decide if I use as a tool to learn Python by using django or if learning 2 new languages/frameworks at a time is a silly idea.
aiming to write some more http://www.privacypatterns.org so that I can talk about the project more widely.
-Make/upload an example video
-Content... guides for different ailments, etc.
-First sale!
On the other hand I am completing a project I am really excited about, a long kept idea, using external developers, which I hope to reveal in June - http://www.mindthebook.com . Stay tuned.
Aside from that, trying to learn Python.
Stuff to learn: numerical linear algebra, dictionary learning, Judea Pearl's Causality
Research: diffusion geometry for databases (?)
- Learning Russian with a friend
- Expanding my background in the core areas of Mathematics
- Reacquainting myself with graphics programming and implementing at least part of a game engine.
- Finding a Thesis topic...
- Write a small webapp or two (I've got a few ideas).
- Learn either Node or a functional language.
- Keep a workout schedule.
Somebody has to remember to repost this question in a month or so... :)
- continue my 6 year streak of visiting Hawaii every year
- potty train my youngest kid and break my 6 year streak of buying diapers
- Brush up on statistics
- Write a cloudish music player