Live University Progress

January 2026

114/180 credits

astronomy+6 credits

March 2026

120/180 credits

data-management-1+12 credits

June 2026

132/180 credits

foundations of computer science+6 credits

July 2026

138/180 credits

probability+6 credits

phys+6 credits

September 2026

150/180 credits

ai&ml+12 credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfwFNKCys9c? :: RL
Learn basic NNs at a simple level, build from scratch (no frameworks) a feed forward neural network with back propagation to train against MNIST or something as simple. Understand every part of it. Just use your favorite programming language._Karpathy YT
implement word2vec from scratch (in C?)
https://karpathy.medium.com/yes-you-should-understand-backprop-e2f06eab496b? yes, you should understand backprop - karpathy
see DL with Python from Chollet
Alice's Adventures in a differentiable wonderland
Learn how the NN architectures work and why they work. What is an encoder-decoder? Why the first part produces an embedding? How a transformer works?
Distributed Training :: multicore programming + distributed systems :: notes/chats/ChatGPT-⌨️.md

October 2026

162/180 credits

thesis+18 credits

🎓

November 2026

180/180 credits

You keep on learning and learning,
and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before.
― Feynman

> 🪴 _The only judges: nature and free markets._

- streaming-markdown-parser
- tiled matrix multiplication
- github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
- algorithms and data structures in C, cp-sapienza/booklet in C
- real-time multiplayer
- collaboration
- LSM: /lsm.txt
- gRPC
- fzf
- implement react in js, then build a ts compiler and re-write react using that. WASM?
- build a fingerprinting engine using using redis' hnsw https://github.com/antirez/hnstyle
- HTTP server
- tcp/ip
- parsers, interpreters, compilers :: antirez YT course
- recreate fun/interesting papers (e.g. linear probes like "LLMs Encode How Difficult Problems Are")
- elementary school refresh
- university / learning Library: notion.so/1132248f76b0806f952fe6f8eaad6f2a
- Bioinformatics: github.com/ossu/computer-science
- Medicine: youtu.be/CkwSeMrOPjc
- rockets? physics?
- the math of general relativity: https://youtu.be/EllUe_5ZGyM

- 6 months without coding, just reading books and maybe writing. topics: taste,
  psychology, history, patterns, people

- 6 months doing hackatons around the world,
  building just for fun

- HTXStudio(youtube.com/@HTXStudio/shorts)-like products
- self-driving boat?
- self-driving: payload transportation automation, defense :: ground vehicles, aerial vehicles

danielfalbo.com/weblog/important-problems-2025

±crazy

- sabbatical? :: dance, 35mm film, personality.txt
- intern at research lab? @ DeepMind/Anthropic/Stanford/Berkeley/Oxford/Cambridge/Mila/LSE/ETH/Imperial?
- intern at hedge fund? @ Jane Street?
- (DIY?)master's? phd? :: ai? cs? math? karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/
- film school @ NYU/UCLA/USC/Columbia?

yc, hf0?

open source
tech company
applied research lab

blakemasters.tumblr.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup

jeanyang.com/posts/angel-investors-a-field-guide/

2025-11-09*.md

good-cinematography short films ads
featuring dance choreographs
rehearsed in world's first high-resolution music dance lab