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1. finish my PhD
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2. learn about stochastic differential equations
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3. understand and apply game theory
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4. become a better networker
37 people
5. Improve my social skills
162 people
6. diy
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7. craft more
96 people
8. be a mad scientist
1 entry 5 people
9. become a mad scientist
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10. pass a qualifying exam
2 entries 1 person
11. contribute professionally to a major logistics solution
1 person
12. contribute professionally to a major sustainable technology solution
1 person
13. contribute professionally to a major financial engineering solution
1 person
14. contribute professionally to a major industrial automation solution
1 person
15. lose about five kilograms of fat and toxins, preferably by fasting
1 person
16. cultivate a life-long habit of strength and vigor by periodic fasting
1 person
17. publish and update a hypertext relating wollstonecraft, blake, le fanu, swedenborg, paracelsus, plotinus, etc.
1 entry 1 person
18. Learn Stochastic calculus properly
3 people
19. read all of Plato's dialogues
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20. publish two papers in SCI journals
1 person
21. publish peer-reviewed papers
1 person
22. publish an article
161 people
23. Publish a paper
152 people
24. learn chinese
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25. exercise regularly
10,512 people
26. meditate daily
3,978 people
27. work because I like to, not because I have to
3,435 people
28. learn how to trade forex
1 entry 1 person
29. learn how to trade commodities
1 entry 1 person
30. make a game
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31. Learn to weld
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32. own a factory
1 entry 3 people
33. own a farm
1 entry 206 people
34. become an industrialist
2 people
35. make more friends
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36. write my dissertation
1 entry 59 people

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articles compete for scarce time and mental energy 16 months ago

I have to read a lot of scholarly papers all week.

When I started, they said that I could just get two peer-reviewed papers accepted, and then I would be able to just put them together and call it a dissertation. I think it’s going to be considerably trickier than that. I think I need to write what I know, but put it into the context of the department. I still have to talk to my advisor about this.

Jul 19, 2008, 08:00PM PDT | 0 comments

publish and update a hypertext relating wollstonecraft, blake, le fanu, swedenborg, paracelsus, plotinus, etc.

Untitled 16 months ago

Just today, I was moved to quote Housman’s “Queen of Air and Darkness” in the office, although I confused it with Keats’ “Belle Dame Sans Merci.” All of these sentiments are tangled up with the shallow imitators of Newton who wanted to “disenchant” the world, and with the various Romantics, Swedenborgians, and Plotinist/Platonists who struggled in the mix. A key problem is that I would need to frequently update and back up data on these interconnected personages.

A relational database is an obvious alternative. However, managing a relational database is not always straightforward. Some kind of Java app might be used to contain relationally organized data. Come to think of it, I bet that NetBeans has all kinds of little things to manage this kind of task.

My little EEE PC is a natural platform for this kind of task, but I haven’t tested NetBeans on it. Certainly it cannot handle Eclipse well: it might be able to handle NetBeans.

Jul 06, 2008, 10:03PM PDT | 0 comments

pass a qualifying exam (read all 2 entries…)

Untitled 16 months ago

So I took the qualifying exam and a little later some of my classmates emailed me info from older exams. I still don’t know my grades, but since I will probably have to take the same exam again, it’s reasonable to plan that I will have to get together with classmates to study.

Jun 30, 2008, 12:46AM PDT | 0 comments

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