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Weekly recap 1/2 – 2/16

I’ve been doing a poor job of posting my weekly recaps so I’m going to do a big dump of info and try to get to a regularly scheduled weekly recap next week.

One piece of news is I’ve started a Masters degree in Computer Science via the Georgia Tech/Udacity collaboration: OMS CS
For my first class, I’m taking Software Architecture and Design

Courses I’ve completed

Learning How to Learn

Articles (mostly as a result of the course)

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2015/01/19/speed-reading-redo/

https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/dunlosky.pdf

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Turn-Their-Attention/63746

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky-its-an-easy-skill-to-learn.html

http://time.com/79937/how-studying-or-working-abroad-makes-you-smarter/

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/remembering-as-an-extreme-sport/?_php=true&_type=blogs&hp&_r=0

Books I’ve read

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Book of Five Rings: A Classic Text on the Japanese Way of the Sword by Miyamoto Mushashi

Podcasts I’ve listened to (after reading the books)

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In which I decide it’s the last ‘in which’ post

New titling system coming up for 2018

Now on to our weekly recap of 12/11 to 12/15


Articles I’ve read

The Story of the most important tool in data science

New Black Metal Album Wasn’t Made By Humans

How to be more productive without burning out

Jim Simons: The Numbers King

Podcasts I’ve listened to

Robots Managing Your Money?
subsequent reading
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/fast-data-is-the-key-to-next-gen-capital-and-risk-management
http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/07/the-race-to-build-big-data-machines-in-financial-investing.html

Fundamentals I’ve reviewed This week was statistics review.
https://www.quantopian.com/lectures/statistical-moments#watch
https://www.quantopian.com/lectures/linear-correlation-analysis

Currently reading

Principles by Ray Dalio

Current project

https://github.com/dsocaciu/Books/tree/master/AcceleratedCpp/Chapter12