This is a “Now” Page.

What I’m Learning

• Math: Convex Optimization
• Visualization Tools: Visx, PowerBI, Looker

What I’m Reading

• Daily Devotional. Love On: A Study Through 1 John, a study plan on YouVersion.
• Books.
  • Spiritual. Knowing God, by J. I. Packer.
  • Technical. Lectures on Convex Optimization, by Yurii Nesterov.
  • Technical. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems, by Martin Kleppmann.

What I’m Working On

• Job. Applying for jobs! As well as refining resume.
• Project Building. Building a project on the College Scorecard Open Data. The plan (current progress: database setup completed):
  • The project would consist of two parts -
    1. Build a PostgresSQL database from the raw data files, document it, using this site.
    2. Build interactive visualizations from the files, using a subset of the data.
  • Technology:
    1. The visualization would consist of a webapp, using visx + DaisyUI + NextJS + ReactJS, and deploy on Vercel, with PostgresSQL database setup on Neon to utilize NextJS’ serverside rendering, data fetching.
    2. Use polars for data wranggling.
• Website Content Generation. Plan to add:
  • Math: Commonly-used Function classes (notions on convexity, self-concordance, PL(Polyak-Łojasiewicz)), Interior point methods, Gradient Methods, Lower Bounds.
  • Blog: Math journey.

What I’m Watching

On MyAnimeList.