'Now' Page

Last updated on 2024-12-19

This is a “Now” Page.

What I’m Learning

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

What I’m Reading

  • Daily Devotional. Love On: A Study Through 1 John, a study plan on YouVersion.
  • Books.
    • Spiritual. The Prodigal God, by Tim Keller.
    • 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:
    • The project would consist of two parts -
      1. Build a sqlite database from the raw data files, and document it, using this site.
      2. Build interactive visualizations from the files, using a subset of the data.
    • Technology:
      1. Use visx + MUI + react for visualization, UI, interactivity, and deploy on Vercel.
      2. Use pandas, 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.