Today was started with another look at Linear Algebra, this time with Stanford’s Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe. While yesterday’s “Essence of Linear Algebra” videos were good for the intuition and a solid foundation, this book is a great view into how it relates to programming and the standardized notation and language I’ll see in papers.

I needed to take notes for these chapters, and as referenced by last time I’m tired of a git repository + vim as my organizational method. So I’m spending some time getting spacemacs + org-mode set up on windows, since I’ve found it more comfortable to use than my smaller linux laptop. Mysteriously, some packages won’t download behind the firewall.

Between downloads and all that, I’ve been back into chess and losing badly at 10+0 matches on lichess. 5+ games, not one win! So it’s time to hit the books with Play Winning Chess (ISBN 9781556152719). PS: Challenge me or ridicule my games on lichess!

Also a bit of work was done on this website with multilingual support and the titlebar, as well as some chinese reading practice.

After this all it’s time to see an Islandic post-rock band at the nearby livehouse.