Ask HN: How far did you get with your 2024 goals?

8 points by meridion 1 year ago | 2 comments

Looking at my own goals for this year I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782613,

> I am thinking to go through as many of Andrew Ng's deep learning courses as I can. With AI developing at such a fast rate, it would be beneficial to know how it works underneath.

I ended up doing the entire Deep Learning Specialization and thoroughly enjoyed it. The courses gave me a good idea about AI fundamentals. The disadvantage is that since they're a few years old (pre-ChatGPT), the courses are already behind. I saw they have separate courses going into LLMs and such which might be worth looking into.

> I'm thinking to go through a raytracing course and some basic VFX courses on Blender. Possibly something about storytelling as well.

Sadly I didn't end up doing raytracing or VFX courses :( Instead I took up Unreal Engine and iOS dev, though I might be able to do at least one of those this year. For storytelling I only managed to read a few books on good writing. Haven't written anything on my own yet. I could possibly create a blog to test out my writing skills there.

nullptr_deref 1 year ago |

I had one of the best resolution for this year, so far I exceeded it with a banger.

My resolution was to go into the year without having any expectation. It is one of the most counter intuitive thing, but yes. I achieved nothing this year. I went from (-) to (0).

Resetting life and thinking through it takes a lot of effort. I am continuing the same resolution with sub-goal of hitting 1 if possible.

Expectations and desires are the root of all evils in your life. Control them, and you control you.

farseer 1 year ago | |

>>Expectations and desires are the root of all evils in your life.

Regret is even more destructive, once you are past a certain age. Could have, would have, should have...