It's new years eve and - as always - I try to finish some things and have some plans for next year.
Review of 2019
Not a lot happened about which I want to write publicly, so here are some other mentionable facts:
- I have 68 643 points (+28 060) on StackOverflow and reached 29.9 million people (+7.5 million) with my posts (source).
- I wrote only 50 articles for this blog (including this one, not counting 15 ones which were pulished as a cleanup) in 2019. A couple
of them might be interesting:
- Simple Operations and Basic Numbers gives an idea how fast different operations are
- Bucketing in A/B Testing
- Flask Chat with Polling
- I published a paper and a dataset: WiLI-2018
- A couple of reviews, e.g. Monitors, hiking insoles, water bottles, Fitness Trackers and Password Managers. I also switched my health insurance to TK
- Political ones, e.g. about Climate Change and Homöopathie
- 10 recepies, including vegetable curry, crispy thuna and tofu and Shrimps and Tofu
- I've uploaded 31 files to Wikipedia Commons in 2019 (2195 files in total, source). My uploads to Wikipedia Commons are about 6 GiB in total now. On commons, I made 5418 edits in total.
Interesting changes in my life: Hmm ... actually, I'm not sure 🤔 Maybe that I survived my Nepal trip 😅 (seriously, I got pretty sick during that trip / after it and that was a lot of my vaccation this year). Again, I thought often about moving out of my shared flat. I'm pretty sensitive to noise and it's simply too crowded here. Let's see.
Again I can say that I spent a lot of time with working. Maybe too much time. I've noticed that I contributed a lot less to Wikipedia and wrote less blog articles of lower quality. I did write more answers on StackOverflow again.
Old year resolutions
- ✗ Get comfortable with Orange Bouldering routes (5c-6c) and finish at least 5 harder ones (6c - 7b): I am comfortable at 5a and manage to do 6a+ ones. No chance at 7b... not even close.
- ✗ Create a GAN for my HASYv2 dataset: I didn't even attempt this 😢
- ✔ Create at least 10 more blog posts with recipes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- ✗ Create at least 10 high-quality Media files for Wikipedia: 1, 2, 3,
Old year predictions
Machine Learning and Technology
- ✔ Tensorflow will keep being the dominant deep learning framework as measured by (1) StackOverflow questions, (2) Google Trend, (3) Github repositories
- ✔ There will still not be a DOTA playing AI which can replace a human DOTA player in a human team with the usual flexibility: The best thing we can do is OpenAI Five which does not coorporate with humans but play together against amateur humans.
- ✗ We will see fraud cases related to ML: Although I expected deepfakes to be used for that, I haven't seen any news.
To show the deep learning stuff:
| StackOverflow questions | Google Trend | Github repositories | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tensorflow | 50 751 | 78 | 15081 |
| PyTorch | 5 093 | 50 | 8104 |
| Caffe | 2 782 | 0 for caffe2 | 758 and 89 |
| Torch | 1 110 | 11 | 337 and 95 |
| CNTK | 498 | 1 | 114 |
About Me
- ~ I will come back well from Nepal.
- ✗ I will write at least 10 summaries of papers on cs.CV: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- ✔ I will learn and fully understand how Flask Blueprints work.
- ✗ I will reach level 5 on the first 15 lessons for Spanish on Duolingo and level 3 on the next 13 ones. (So far: 10 on Level 5, 1 on Level 4, 3 on Level 3, 1 on Level 2)
The bigger Picture: Politics, Nature and the World
- ✔ There will be over 250 mass shootings in the US in 2019. I define a mass shooting as anything where at least 4 people get injured by a gun. (List of mass shootings in the United States in 2019)
- ✔ The government shutdown will last at least 20 days, but no more than 40 days. ✔
- ✔ Trump will still be in office
New year resolutions
The plans for my new year are:
- [ ] Bouldering: Get comfortable with blue (5b to 6a+) and do at least 10 orange ones (6a+ to 6c)
- [ ] Create a GAN for my HASYv2 dataset
- [ ] Enzado: Clean solution for image uploads
- [ ] Enzado: Clean solution for backups
- [ ] Enzado: Add interface to create courses
- [ ] Enzado: Create a course for Python package creation
- [ ] Enzado: Add a web chat
Finishing things
I always do some cleanup before the new year begins. This means especially cleaning my computer stuff of unnecessary trash.
- ✓ Archiving 3218 conversations in my Primary inbox
- ✓ Deleting 429 conversations in my Social inbox
- ✓ Deleting 995 conversations in my Promotions inbox
- ✓ Archive 3435 conversations in my Updates inbox
- ✓ Delete 542 conversations in my Forums inbox
- [ ] Clean up my smartphones TODO list.
- [ ] Clean up my Desktop / Download folder.
- ✓ Make Backup of Google+ and Gmail (takeout), WhatsApp (tutorial), Amazon, Banking. I skipped Facebook (tutorial) and Twitter (tutorial) this year.
- ✓ Push git stuff
- [ ] Remove things from my YouTube "Watch Later" list
Predictions for 2020
Machine Learning and Technology
- Still Lithium-Ion will not have any contender for Smartphones
- Python 2 will still be around (despite pythonclock.org, py3readiness, python3statement)
- Still no real, unrestricted self-driving cars which ordinary people can buy (e.g. less than 300k USD and on open market) on the road (despite this and many more claims)
About Me
- I will write at least 10 articles around sustainability / reducing waste / climate change
- I will run 6.1 km (Distance of B2Run) in less than 30 minutes
- I will reduce my weight from 69 kg currently to 64 kg
- I will live 350 days meat-free (sea food is ok)
The bigger Picture: Politics, Nature and the World
- [ ] Germany will still produce more than 400 Mt CO2 and thus fail the climate targets (2017 it was 906 Mt, source)
- [ ] At least 3 wildfires which will burn more than 100,000 ha
- [ ] The impeachment of Trump will not bring him into prison
- [ ] Trump will be the republican candidate
- [ ] Sanders will be the democrats candidate
- [ ] Democrats will win the election