Daily Log
"What did you get done this week?" - Elon Musk
June 2, 2025
- Read “A Philosophy of Software Design”
- Learn Go with Tests: Maps, Dependency Injection, Mocking, Concurrency)
June 1, 2025
- Read “A Philosophy of Software Design”
- Boot.dev Docker Course
- Set up my first Github Actions for Go Continuous Integration (CI)
May 31, 2025
- Go through Learn Go with Tests (loops, arrays and slices, types, structs, and interfaces)
- Read “A Philosophy of Software Design”
- Read Comprehensive Guide to Testing in Go
May 30, 2025
- Set up Neovim
- Set up Tmux
May 29, 2025
- Finish final exams
- High school reunion party
May 5, 2025
- Qdrant queries to find similar books for ML project.
- AI Emotions presentation
- Helped friend fix an issue with git.
May 4, 2025
- Take Zettlekasten notes & Study for ML
- Populate PostgreSQL database from Goodreads datasets for ML Project
- Gym
May 3, 2025
- Write Linear Algebra project report
- Gym
May 2, 2025
- Study ML for final
- Start making a Python pipeline for ML project
- Write & Publish Useful Git
May 1, 2025
- Study for ML final
- Make a slack bot
- Gym
April 24, 2025
- Practice Linear Algebra Presentation
- Walk 45 minutes
- Gym
— Spring Break + Got Extremely sick —
April 6, 2025
- Finetune SBERT on book metadata for content-based filtering for ML project (BookDB.io)
- Generate Embeddings for book metadata using finetuned model (BookDB.io)
- Write explanations for ML Assignment 2, first draft.
- Put a feedback widget on the sidebar for QuizBuilder.ai. (Only frontend)
- Walk 1 hour
April 5, 2025
- Prepare data for finetuning SBERT for ML project (BookDB.io)
- Do Mock Midterm 3 for Probability Midterm.
April 4, 2025
- Do Mock Midterm 2 for Probability Midterm.
- Make Python Notebook & Cheatsheet for Probability Midterm.
- Redesign the quiz summary page for QuizBuilder.ai.
- Walk 1 hour.
April 3, 2025
- Edit & Submit probability project video submission.
- Do Mock Midterm 1 for Probability midterm
- Add User Activity Discord notifications and error-logging in QuizBuilder.ai
- Clean room
April 2, 2025
- Edit probability project video submission
- Continue working on ML Assignment 2 - Training Linear Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost
- Study for Probability Midterm.
April 1, 2025
- Present QuizBuilder.ai in Entrepreneurship class. Got 17 users.
March 31, 2025
- Build & launch QuizBuilder.ai
- Think about how to make QuizBuilder.ai faster and better.
March 30, 2025
- Start studying for Probability Midterm.
- Start working on ML Assignment 2 - EDA on Bike-Sharing Dataset.
- Set up Tanstack Router, ShadcnUI, Go backend for building QuizBuilder.ai
March 29, 2025
- Learn how to finetune Sentence Transformers (SBERT) for ML Project (BookDB.io)
- Gym
March 28, 2025
- Map author_id to new uuid and store in users table with is_author=True. (BookDB.io)
- Finetune SBERT on Book metadata. Result wasn’t good. Have to refine. (BookDB.io)
- Upload users to Postgres from Goodreads datasets. (BookDB.io)
March 27, 2025
- Add filters (blur, edge, emboss, sharpen) and SVD compression to Linear Algebra Project (TinyIMG.io)
- Probability Project Presentation & Filming
March 26, 2025
- Linear Algebra Assignment 4
- Rebuild Linear Algebra project with WebGL
- Obsidian Zettlekasten Notes for Deep Learning in ML class
March 25, 2025
- Study & Practice Linear Algebra: Determinants, Least Squares, Orthonormal, Gram-Schmidt
- Finish Probability Project 1
- Document ML Project Datasets
March 24, 2025
- Build a todo list API in Go with Gin, SQLc, and pgx.
- Skim Tanstack Router docs
March 23, 2025
- Plan ML Project
- Gym
March 22, 2025
- Work on Linear Algebra project (Go -> WebAssembly, Singular Value Decomposition)
- Data preprocessing for ML Project (Goodreads Books Database)
- Entrepreneurship class homework
- Practice Go - PostgreSQL operations with pgx, SQLc, and Goose
March 21, 2025
- Learn Concurrency in Go
- Finsh Boot.dev Learning Go course
- Finish Boot.dev HTTP Clients in Go course
- Gym
March 20, 2025
- Computer Architecture Midterm Exam
March 19, 2025
- Active Recall Session for Computer Architecture Midterm
- Grind Golang course on Boot.dev
- Gym
March 18, 2025
- Study for Computer Architecture Midterm
- Study Recommender Techniques for Book Recommendation
March 17, 2025
- Active Recall Session for Computer Architecture Midterm
March 16, 2025
- Gym
March 15, 2025
- Study & Take notes for Neural Networks in ML class
- Gym
- Stick to diet
Wasted a lot of time (>1.5hrs) scrolling on Instagram. Deleted the app again.
January 18, 2025
- Take notes on The ML Engineering Book chapter 3.
- Take notes for linear algebra class.
- Read “You and Your Research” - Richard Hamming.
January 12, 2025
- Study and take notes for ML class.
- Study & practice probability in prep for class.
January 11, 2025
- Stick to diet.
- Study & practice Linear Algebra.
- Study & practice probability in prep for class.
- Start DesignGurus DSA course for leetcode prep.
January 7, 2025
Was feeling pretty sick today. Woke up pretty early to fix sleep schedule for uni. Senced body-ache and headache, probably from walking in the cold last night. Spent most of the day sleeping/chilling. Anyway, managed to get some prep studying done for uni.
- Study ML in prep for university
- Study Linear Algebra in prep for university
January 6, 2025
- Finish redesigning the blog and adding sections to my personal website.
- Write a project writeup on last semester’s Cloud Computing project at uni.
- Practice working with Neovim
- Read the Computer Architecture chapter of The Elements of Computing systems in preparation for university course.
- Have a call with friend to show and get feedback for redesigned website blogs.