Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

My plan is keep learning too. I used the holiday days to work on my 3D renderer and brushing up on 3D tech. I just figured out an O(N) way of applying the shadow-map in post-processing. Now I am implementing Screen Space Reflections, and the next step is "Geometry Images" (similar to Nanite).

Happy New Year!

I am in the same line as you, I don't have any "new year promises" but I will try to focus on my health: eating better and training more.

This is discussed in a video I think is specially relevant today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE

Become financially independent and not have to work.

Happy New Year!

I do not do "resolutions", but my plan is as always to keep learning and growing as a developer.

Also to do even more writing! Including my fiction, which has been picking up steam.

Like you, I hope to consume less next year. Or rather, consume less things and more experiences.

Im a year into my ADHD diagnosis and have been finding treatment, techniques and accommodations that work for me.

My aim this coming year is to work smarter, not harder. In fact, I want to spend less time on the computer, and more time with my horses - while still maintaining the same or higher level of productivity.

It would be nice to finally unleash my (10+ year and counting...) pet project on the world - but that still requires a transition from vapour to code ;)

Get healthy. Get more energy.

Happy NY HN.

It's a nice time to reflect on goals.. Over the next year I would like to finish and publish my free and open source VR game made with Godot and focus on the idea of not continuously distracting myself.

Consume less = exclude myself from certain kinds of social relationships with other people, show less appreciation to the labor of inventors, engineers and people who make stuff with their hands (appreciation in action, not just in words)?

Everyone is entitled to live the way they prefer (within certain limits), of course! :) But I would want to “consume better” instead of “consuming less”.

Consume things made sustainably, buy quality products made by small/family businesses, purchase more services rather than goods, avoid consuming things made by big corporations under regimes that go against the values I believe in, support technologies that move humanity closer to the future that appears to be “a better future”, etc.. I hope that this does not sound too contrarian and does not offend anybody! Peace and happy New Year to everyone!

Happy New Year everyone!

2022 is when I'll be trying my hand at bootstrapping and also working on my reoccurring back pain.

I have three.

1. Spend more time with my family. I have a 1 year old daughter, and boy the time flies watching her grow. I’m slowing down my career and investing in her.

2. Becoming healthy by continued devotion to eating for fuel, being mindful of my activity level and enjoying this beautiful world we all inhabit.

3. Showing gratitude and love for my fellow humans.

Have a Happy New Year all, I hope you make it happen this year!

My goal is find a financially stable way to continue paying for my in-law's cancer treatment. Since the start of 2020 the cost of treatment has eclipsed the combined income of my spouse and I. We're need to find a way to continue paying in the long-term without going further into debt. Chemo medication is so expensive and in this part of the world local health insurance doesn't help with these costs.

Happy new year, HN.

I'm a huge believer in CGP Grey's thematic year system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE) in place of resolutions. After outstanding successes two years in a row with the system (first year with my physical health, second year with my work and finances), I'm doing a "year of relationships" where my focus will be general social and romantic recoveries. Especially since, in the last two years, this is what has suffered the most for many including myself.

I posted on Tildes about this, in fact: https://tildes.net/~talk/zsh/your_theme_for_2022

I quit my job. My last day is next Friday. I have 2 years' worth of living expenses saved up and the conviction that I'll find a way to make it work.

I've spent 2021 developing self-respect and solidifying self-care routines. I started a regular fitness practice, quit alcohol and stimulants, and grew closer to friends and family. Over the holiday period, I've reflected, and realised: I care so much about my body, what I put into it, and how I look after it - so why don't I have the same respect for my time, and what I spend the vast majority of my day doing?

In the short term, I will create the best free Java tutorial videos in the world. I think the state of Java tutorials on YouTube is currently poor, full of misinformation and inefficient scripting. And I intend to change that. My first: https://youtu.be/CN27X68YO4I.

I don't really do "New Years resolutions", but I do (sometimes) do at least a little high-level planning for the year ahead. Coincidentally, I just did that exercise a few minutes before seeing this post. Well... some of the "planning" had been going on in my head for a while of course, but I mean I took the time to actually write it down.

I'd just share the doc with y'all but too much of what is in there would be really opaque because it refers to labels that I put on things that would be meaningless to anybody else. But as a summary, I have sections for

Reading / Research -- refers specifically to books/papers I want to read and research I'm working on.

Learning -- refers to "basic skills" or what-not that I want to focus on.

Building - refers to specific projects I want to work on that involve building something (could be hardware or software, or a combination of both)

Fogbeam - refers to anything related to Fogbeam Labs, my company.

The first section, Reading has reference to a number of books on linguistics / language / computational linguistics / NLP that I plan to work through. It also mentions reading the remaining books by Ben Goertzel that I haven't already read yet. Same for Ron Sun. There's also a section on Machine Learning and Evolutionary computing (Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, etc.). And then there's some miscellaneous stuff. But realistically, I won't get through all of it in 1 year. I finished 50 books in 2021 (which is around my norm) but that includes quite a few novels and shorter books. Most of these are denser / meatier material that will be a slog to grind through. So I'll probably be lucky to finish 30 books in 2022.

Anyway... in the Learning section is some stuff about a sequence of math topics I want to focus on. I won't bore you with the details, but just suffice it to say I feel like I need to brush up on some forgotten math stuff and learn some stuff I never studied in the first place.

There's also a note here to continue working on learning more about working with the SOAR cognitive architecture.

In the Building section is a mention of an (e)-book manager / paper manager / note-taking app that I've started building for myself. Yes, I'm building my own because I have some very specific ideas about how I want it work, to suit the way I like to do things. If I ever get a reasonably decent version finished I might open source it. Most of what I work on is OSS, and that tends to be my default mode. But we'll see.

The other thing in this section is a "body" for some of my AI work. By "body" I don't mean a biped, walking/talking, anthropomorphic body... no, I just mean an old boom-box that I gutted out, and into which I plan to install a raspberry pi, a battery pack, a pan/tilt controller with a web-cam, a microphone, and some other miscellaneous sensors (accelerometer, temperature sensor, etc). It's meant to be "just barely enough" of a form of embodiment to let me do some experiments with how an AI might learn from interacting with its environment. Here is where I should mention that my reading list also needs to include a bunch of stuff I plan to read about developmental psychology, first language acquisition, etc. The idea is to play around with ideas related to the whole "let the AI learn (sort of) like a baby does" meme.

And if you're wondering, no, the rPi isn't meant to do the "heavy lifting" in regards to the AI "stuff" associated with the box thing. It's just going to be a front-end, collecting signals from the various sensors, possibly doing some pre-processing, etc. and then forwarding everything to another box where the real work will be done.

Under the Fogbeam label is a bunch of "finish product X", "finish product Y", type stuff. I'l...

Build more things, i took a break in 2021 due to having a child, but I want to resume building mini apps and tools for my own use in 2022 as a way to learn and eventually build for others

Happy new year from Auckland, New Zealand!

In the past my New Years resolutions were 800x600, 1024x768, etc, but this year, let's try something more exciting.

• Maximise connectedness.

• Reduce entropy.

• Love your neighbour, clean as you go.

That sounds pretty meta, but taken practically: clean the software code at work, clean the litter on the street on the commute (especially masks = COVID concentrators, to save the flies and birds who don't have a vaccine yet).

Another more likely deliverable goal is to write an article, using the Sierpinski triangle as a model of a perfectly balanced binary tree. The topics would translate a suggestion of how to apply that model into all cultures (engineering, economics, marketing, travel, open-source, social networks, etc). The self-imposed deadline is before 20 years of Wolfram - A New Kind of Science at the end of January.

MasterYoda, your iterative learning strategy is the best approach for ML and life! Let's hack together something imperfect that's good enough for today, and learn how to make it better together!

For me, it's all about health. I've found a new job that I like, but it's 1/2 the wage, and only 3 days a week. But I don't really care, since it's good place. I'll start walking more, and incorporate healthier habits. I will show gratitude to others.

There is so much to learn (automated theorem proving, graph neural networks, reinforcement learning, theory of mind, ...), yet so little time. Any tips on how to prioritize?

Happy New Year HN!

Never really had any new year resolutions, but I promised myself that 2022 is the year I'm going full digital nomad (for a year or two). I have little to no responsibilities that tie me to a certain place at this point of my life and an itch to discover new places in the world.

- Build muscle

- Level up my career

- Take a nice long trip to Europe

- Learn music theory and write my own music

- Buy the supercar I've been wanting for some time

"Consume less, create/learn more"

That is the crux of one of my goals this year. I have already deleted Facebook, Tiktok and Instagram from my phone in preparation.

I'm excited and optimistic about 2022. Happy New Year HN.

Left day job, going forward with new company, will see how it goes. Also want to learn more embedded stuff (robotics). Hopefully not end up broke.

Happy new year HN. I am going to figure out new ways in which to apply myself in CS so I can move past the current slump I am in. Not sure if it's burnout I can't recover from or my interests changing as I grow.

I'm thinking of resigning first thing. I took the Christmas break to mull it over and came to the conclusion that I'm not happy where I am anymore, even if it is comfortable and decent money. Once I'm settled into a new job I'm hoping to get on to the property ladder so I can have my own space. I'd also like to get a bit fitter so if I can find the courage I'll try going to the gym. In the meantime I'll continue with my software projects.