this board is a godsend.

I’m starting to think I should make this my whole undergrad research project. I could develop a tiny part of it for this DB course. Thanks for your response, lots of helpful stuff here and will come back to it and others’ comments…

Haven’t done any linear algebra or dug into matrices yet… do you think light study of the basics on KhanAcademy would be enough? I’ve done calc 1 and 2 and discrete math.

I read it years ago, and I should definitely dig in again and review. Big part of why I want to do everything in labour time as much as possible. However I think he suggests the use of a neural network at one point which is a little over my head for now. I am thinking simpler like the pen and paper material balance planning the Gosplan cdes used to do…

Lately, I’ve had more success and less frustration trying to make one test case pass at a time, working my way through them, not adding anything until it’s needed. I use Duolingo too!

makes sense!

I’ll check it out, I think i’ve seen that one talked about online!

we can have a few impersonators as a treat

Yes, and I’m inclined to think there is a not-tiny subset of people who really would be tireless creatives/athletes etc under conditions of full communism, that our general level of engagement with learning, art, and science would probably increase, and there would be plenty of room for a far easier way of life as well.