New Year 2018

It's New Year's Eve and - as always - I try to finish some things and have some plans for next year.

Review of 2017

Here are some other mentionable facts:

ML-KA is still active.
I have 26 071 points on StackOverflow and reached 9.0 million people with my posts (source).
I wrote 74 articles for this blog (including this one) in 2017. A couple of them might be interesting:
I've uploaded 249 files to Wikimedia Commons in 2017 (1969 files in total, source). My uploads to Wikimedia Commons are about 5 GiB in total now. On commons, I made 4983 edits in total.

How I spent money:

Month	Rent + Additional Charges	Food	Hygiene	Clothes	Dating	Recreation	Insurance	Travel+Phone	Rest
01/2017	232.00	104.00	2.35	0.00	0.00	141.57	90.34	76.00
02/2017	232.00	119.97	19.00	18.95	0.00	10.34	91.64	69.00	University: 143.69; Household: 5.30
03/2017	232.00	138.50	3.20	34.99	0.00	5.75	0.00	0.00	Medicine: 6.40
04/2017	232.00	122.18	0.00	38.99	2.25	120.33	91.64	0.00
05/2017	1056.51	101.42	1.45	47.90	157.50	159.91	91.64	148.05	Rent deposit: 1800.00
06/2017	630.00	126.75	0.00	0.00	5.31	127.23	91.64	103.23	Moving: 197.81; Household: 99.45; Master's thesis: 20.00; Medication: 8.43
07/2017	900.00	143.37	0.00	153.53	0.00	299.43	54.98	69.88	Internet:29.76; Bike:708.90; Household: 7.78
08/2017	900.00	90.89	20.65	56.50	147.90	79.92	0.00	54.50	Internet:14.90; Rent refund:455.04; Moving: 100.00; Household: 57.46
09/2017	900.00	97.09	23.15	0.00	0.00	230.28	0.00	3.10	Roomba:359.00; Household:57.98
10/2017	900.00	65.81	18.97	74.69	75.56	88.61	0.00	155.59	Internet: 14.90; Household: 9.95; Medicine: 12.48
11/2017	900.00	176.60	18.97	90.50	74.34	99.00	Insurance	Travel+Phone	Internet: 14.90; Medicine: 12.48; ATM: 5.00; Household: 52.97
12/2017	765.00	173.68	11.96	0.00	20.80	166.60	0.00	255.97	GEZ (broadcasting fee):210.00

Interesting changes in my life:

I moved to Munich on 01.06.2017 and started working there at the end of the month.
I got a girlfriend in November 2017.

✔ 03.02.2017: Get new slippers
✗ Get all my stuff from my father's apartment to my room. I've already packed most of it in boxes (In total: 1.00m (+0.30m?) × 0.39m × 0.60m by 4 boxes)
✔ Finish my master's degree
✗ Participate in a Flashmob
✔ Get comfortable with Orange Bouldering routes (5c-6c) and finish at least 5 harder ones (6c - 7b)
✔ Visit a country I haven't been to before. - I've been to Finland.

Machine Learning and Technology

Networks will not get deeper (currently: about 600 layers, max 2000 layers), but work about how to get the same accuracy with fewer parameters / FLOPs will be written.
GANs will be able to create 1024px x 1024px images.
An AI will play StarCraft and at least one nice video of it will be online.

About Me

I will publish at least two papers (one will be my master's thesis)
✔ I will finish my master's degree.
✔ I will publish at least 40 articles on my blog.
✔ I will get at least 20 000 points on StackOverflow (see StackExchange profile) - I got 26 000 points.

Politics

The European Union will still exist and Britain will still be part of it, although somebody will be going to court because of it (see Brexit).
German elections: 35% for CDU/CSU, 18% for SPD, 15% for AfD, 9% for Grüne, 9% Linke.
✔ Trump will not build a complete wall to Mexico.

The plans for my new year are:

I always do some cleanup before the new year begins. This means especially cleaning my computer stuff of unnecessary trash.

[ ] Deleting several hundred e-mails.
[ ] Clean up my smartphone's TODO list.
[ ] Clean up my notes.
[ ] Clean up my Desktop / Download folder.
[ ] Make Backup of Facebook (tutorial), Google+ and Gmail (takeout), Twitter (tutorial), WhatsApp (tutorial), Amazon, Banking.
[ ] Push git stuff