I ended up losing a few days - November 6-8 to a Apart Research Swarm Collusion Hackathon project, then yesterday and some of today to fretting about an eye issue. I was worried about a retinal tear, but it turns out it’s more likely due to one of my other health problems (#infohazards).

I came back today by… largely repeating the exercises I had done already, but in the 0.0 Jupyter notebook instead of the .py file. The .py file is recommended for the in-person sessions, but doing them in VS Code is not incredibly ergonomic on my laptop, so I switched to the Jupyter notebook.

The Einops stuff is pretty easy for me at this point; I had created some targeted Anki cards and the operations come to me pretty quickly now 🎉 I think that’s a sign that I’m on the right track with my study practice (for the first time in my life).

I ended up getting to E - Classifier Accuracy, but I started feeling quite shaky about things. I’m making some cards to build up my skill with the atoms leading up to those operations and combinations thereof.

Currently, I think this is scheduled to take me until April or something - I really hope that isn’t the case. I think now that I have my study systems in place, things should go a lot more quickly.

But we’ll see.