Review 2019

25 Jan 2020

Time to put together all the pieces from last year! 2019 marked the first (full) year of my career and bred a monotonous lifestyle.

This article reviews all events from 2018.10.29 to 2019.12.31 and the Guangzhou Trip.

Work

ups:

  • Quick transition from a carefree student to a full-time employee. Adjusted pretty quickly to business thinking pattern and top-down design methodology
  • Worked on a riveting subject. Expanded my skillset to Groovy, Lua, Flink, Redis and many other state-of-the-art techniques
  • Satisfactory results. Replaced the old strategy-based anomaly detection hub with my machine-learning-based system with convincing performance

oops:

  • Missed a good chance to boost the status of my system due to lack of determination
  • Did not set up connections with fellow programmers and data scientists in the industry

Rating: 8/10

Lifestyle

ups:

  • No major health hazards
  • Played football once per week, among some other regular sport activities. Much better fitness and athleticism than 1 year ago
  • On a balanced diet. No excessive eating, drinking or snacking (except when dating). As a result, my weight is well under control

oops:

  • Average sleep time = 1:30 am. That’s waaaaay too late
  • Average sleep length = 7:15 h. That’s not enough
  • Average 1:30 h on gaming and random browsing per day. That’s too much

Rating: 6.5/10

Family

ups:

  • Sustaining empathy with parents bar minor disagreements
  • Holiday in Nanning with family was cool
  • Overall smooth with GF. Both parties are supportive
  • Holiday in Guangzhou with GF was cool (and full)

oops:

  • No substantial progress on life decisions with GF

Rating 9/10

Skills

ups:

  • Texas poker. Requires some statistics background with strong discipline. Benefitted a lot from playing

oops:

  • Did not practice piano regularly
  • Never really started learning Ableton and Launchpad
  • Still can’t play ukelele

Rating 5/10

Contents

ups:

  • Picked up (again) classical music
  • Wrote mini-reviews for > 10 movies. Adapted to an analytical perspective when watching movies

oops:

  • Reading is almost nonexistent
  • Vinyl devices were scarcely used

Rating 6/10

Best of the Year Awards

Stats

  • Cities: 3 (Hangzhou, Nanning, Guangzhou)
  • Number of movies watched: 42
  • Number of TV series watched (in seasons): 8
  • Hours of music played: 368 hours
  • Most played music artist: Coldplay (17 hours)
  • Most played song: Team by Lorde
  • Most played video game: FIFA 19 (325 hours)
  • Most visited website: stackoverflow.com

2020 Checklists

  • Get promoted #work
  • Set up connections with fellow ML scientists, maybe via String project #work
  • Average sleep time before 0:15 am #lifestyle
  • Average sleep length = 8h #lifestyle
  • The only new game I should commit to is Cyberpunk 2077 #lifestyle
  • Average gaming time < 7h per week #lifestyle
  • Make substantial progress on life decisions with GF #lifestyle
  • Achieve beginner level with ukelele #skills
  • Achieve beginner level with Ableton and Launchpad #skills
  • Read and write reviews for >= 6 books #contents
  • Set up a personal news feed of reliable and intuitive resources #contents
  • Reduce random browsing Hupu and Weibo. Reduce intake of unsystematic information #contents

2020 Keywords

  • System
  • Long term
  • Connection
  • Girlfriend
  • Sleep
 Life