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Summer Break 2017, Day 2 of 83: All Hail the Schedule

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I think the plan's working; I'm already motivated to accomplish everything I've planned in The Schedule. Thanks to Google Calendar, I have the flexibility to change what I do on a daily basis.
(I know, it's like I'm a spokesperson for Google right now, but you haven't seen half of it.) With Calendar's goals feature, I specify frequency and position of goals I want to accomplish, and machine learning ensures the times work out for me. Sure, it's a bit finicky right now, but at least I didn't have to make a hundred something event times for goals that don't have entirely consistent definite start and end time.


MOOCs and More

Because of my existing knowledge and experience with Udacity, I've decided to use their online courses to enrich my currently unstructured learning.

Here's everything scheduled to be completed during the summer:
  • Introduction to Machine Learning (the big one, the real thing I want to accomplish)
  • Introduction to Deep Learning (I hope to at least start this by the end of the summer)
  • Intro to Data Analysis (more like a prelude to Intro to Data Science)
  • Intro to Data Science (so I can learn to love big data) 
  • Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
  • Introduction to Inferential Statistics
I'm dedicated to treating these MOOCs as real courses of learning. I'm taking notes during them and actively suppressing distractions to ensure I fully understand what's going on.

Khan Academy

I'm using Khan Academy to touch up on my existing math skills (yes, even addition of mixed numbers and geometric transformations). I've begun with fourth grade math and I'm working my way up to algebra and AP Calculus BC (because AB is for skrubs).

As much as I would like to keep my mind sharp, my primary goal is to learn linear algebra since I know I won't be taught it in high school. Vectors are important to computer science to say the least, so I'm going to push myself to learn a topic which I think should be introduced in Algebra II.

I'm going to make sure these posts appear on a more consistent, timely schedule (10:30-11:00).
Good night.

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