Building on the learnings from last time, I'm working on speedups to significantly reduce the time to launch the interactive features to make them more, well, interactive. Previously, the script was taking 800 seconds! on startup and that has been improved significantly.
Articles tagged with Practices
Tools for thought - Ship's Log 1 Building
I started with exploring celestial navigation as an initial use case for the tools for thought. My primary takeaways were that the database creation speed really limits the interactive nature of the tool and that the user interface could be improved.
Tools for thought and discovery Building
I've always been interested in increasing the number of research papers that I read and using that to speed up how quickly I can learn different knowledge areas. The problem I have is that I'm aware of large sources of papers (e.g. Mastodon, arXiv.org, and toward my specific interests, the robotics and software engineering topics within arXiv), but don't know what I don't know about content that I'm missing. Where I'd like to end up is that I can be working on writing a topic and in parallel tools can be working to help me surface references that can either be immediately cited or extend my learning on the topic in a tight loop with my writing.
Research Areas for 2025 Building
I'm focusing on starting 2025 by getting more actively connected to research in a variety of fields for the year.