allogenes

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I'm doing 32 things
 

allogenes's Life List

  1. 1. Finish my PhD
    14 entries . 27 cheers
    716 people
  2. 2. Get into the field of "Computational Science"
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    2 people
  3. 3. Publish a scientific paper
    18 entries . 31 cheers
    21 people
  4. 4. improve my concentration
    3 entries . 13 cheers
    170 people
  5. 5. do one thing each day that makes me feel happy or satisfied or accomplished
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    1 person
  6. 6. get my work life in order
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    1 person
  7. 7. have more sex
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    1,000 people
  8. 8. get a passport
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    1,753 people
  9. 9. meet interesting people
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    329 people
  10. 10. make more smart friends
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    1 person
  11. 11. find work I'm passionate about
    2 entries . 25 cheers
    958 people
  12. 12. find a creative partner
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    8 people
  13. 13. learn more about statistics
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    4 people
  14. 14. be better at math
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    178 people
  15. 15. eat healthier
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    10,078 people
  16. 16. get in better shape
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    832 people
  17. 17. Improve my sleeping habits
    2 entries . 11 cheers
    19 people
  18. 18. Learn Middle Egyptian
    4 entries . 14 cheers
    8 people
  19. 19. be more creative
    2 entries . 11 cheers
    1,644 people
  20. 20. make art
    3 entries . 21 cheers
    505 people
  21. 21. learn to draw
    2 entries . 9 cheers
    1,985 people
  22. 22. learn electronics
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    97 people
  23. 23. write a novel
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    9,666 people
  24. 24. learn hypnosis
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    176 people
  25. 25. learn python
    5 entries . 4 cheers
    751 people
  26. 26. avoid re-living the future in my head
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    1 person
  27. 27. master the craft of coffee roasting
    3 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  28. 28. create a website
    2 entries . 7 cheers
    986 people
  29. 29. get my internet personae organized
    4 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  30. 30. blog more
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    490 people
  31. 31. make a list of when all my friend's birthdays are so I stop missing them!
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    1 person
  32. 32. study semiotics
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    9 people

How I did it
How to wake up when my alarm clock goes off even though I don't have an appointment
It took me
41 years
It made me


How to master LaTeX
It took me
2 years
It made me
Happy


How to be involved with no fewer than three different research projects before finishing my PhD
It took me
1 year
It made me


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Recent entries
learn python (read all 5 entries…)
Some progress here... 1 week ago

I’ve read a lot of Summerfield’s Python 3 book, and Beazley’s Python Reference, so I am getting up to speed on 3 and 2.6 a bit. This speeds up and slows down based on my dissertation work on my PhD, so it is slowing down now.

I think when I finish my PhD, I will try to write a package for statistics in Python as an exercise. Or export the apophenia library bindings to Python. (Assuming no one has done that yet!)



create a website (read all 2 entries…)
Ha! 1 week ago

Now my wife wants to do this more that I do. Maybe that will make it easier?



Finish my PhD (read all 14 entries…)
Dissertation Writing 1 week ago

I had a self-imposed deadline of the end of the month to get my dissertation to my advisor (or possibly my committee).

Not going to happen.

But I am still chugging away. Expect to give my first chapter to my informal reviewers this weekend, the second next week (Graphics will hold things up there). After a pass through those people they go to my advisor. Final chapter to someone by next week’s end. Fingers crossed.



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