Imported things to learn

Imported from HTML on my website on 2022-03-26 13:51.

Things to learn

There’s a lot of concepts and math things and programming thingies that I want to learn about and understand some day, but they keep popping up faster than I can keep up. This is the last iteration of my attempts to systematize those.

The way I intend to this page is that I dump things that I want to understand here, and some day, I hopefully come to the page, spend a couple hours studying, and write down my own understanding of them and link to it. That way hopefully if I ever forget what those things are or how they work, I can go back to them digested right for the way my mind works, and optimize them.

Also, prioritizing those has become a problem. I don’t have a systematic solution for that so far.

Math

• Laplace transform
• Signal processing
  • Fourier transform
  • Gabor wavelet transform

Statistics and methodology

• single-variable variance
• Paul Neal Cronbach multi-trait multi method construct validation process
• multi-variable correlation
• factor analysis
• parametric regression
• Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
• Theoretical construct
• What is “hazard ratio”?
• Kurtosis
• Bonferoni adjustment (on P-values)
• F-distribution
• Student’s t-distribution
• Chi-squared distribution
• Samuelson optimization
• Arrow-Debreu lattice state-space
• Kelly’s method (for allocations)
• T-statistic

Computer science

• Nelder-Mead method

Machine learning and AI

• Tensorflow
  • TFX
  • Probability
• Boltzmann machines
• Xavier initialization
• Batch normalization
• RMSprop
• Kernel methods
• Bayesian statistics
• Support vector machines
• Deep belief networks and how to greedily train them
• Deep Boltzmann machines
• LSTMs
• t-SNE
• Message-passing neural network

Computer stuff cool kids use

• VueJS
• Node.js

Psychology

• Workplace personality inventory
• Team dimensions profile
• Stratified systems theory
• Terror management theory
• HPA axis
• Phosphatidylserine

Finance

• Black-Scholes equation
• Measures of money supply (M0 … M4)

Rationalist signalling

• Connection theory charting
• Immunity to change mapping (by Kegan)

Other hacks

• Teeline shorthand
• Trachenberg system (of rapid mental calculation)
• Mechanism design