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Goals 2025

Goals 2025

Last updated: December 19, 2024

Someone is being sneaky, Feel free to read it. But I have mostly written it for myself. To remember my goals and things I wish to achieve this year. I usually note this information down in notion. But as the year progresses the initial goals get lost in the “at the moment” goals.

2025 Vision:

  • Capable of implementing any ML paper I wish
  • Having a group of friends and people who are interested in my work and whose work I am interested in
  • Pytorch in my blood
  • Finally getting abs
  • Finding peace in one’s solitude

Yearly Goals

  • Move to america
  • Financial freedom number at 10k USD per month
  • Read and implemented 10 ML papers
  • Made 20 youtube videos
  • 20 blogs
  • Consistency with twitter, linkedin, reddit, youtube, kaggle
  • Get shredded, down to 70 KGs
  • Read 24 books
  • Make 5 projects

Quarterly Goals

  • Read 6 books
  • Finish 10 blogs
  • Finish 10 videos

Monthly Goals

  • Read 2 books
  • Finish 4 blogs
  • Finish 4 videos

Weekly goals

  • Finish 1 blog
  • Finish 1 video
  • Read half a book

Daily Goals

  • Gym
  • 30 min of podcast (During gym)
  • Dental care, Skin care & Hair care
  • Meditation
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Coding
  • Good and & Healthy food (Lots of protein)

January Goals

  • Finish Transformers blog [Done]
  • Finish transformers video [work in progress]
  • Make SD blog [work in progress]
  • Finish SD video
  • Finish 48 laws of power [done]
  • Repurpose content
  • Start with buddy

Ideal Weekday:
6:30 - 7:00 -> wake up, brush, skin care
7:00 - 9:00 -> Gym, Running, Stretching
9:00 - 10:00 -> breakfast
10:00 - 1:00 -> Company Work
1:00 - 2:00 -> lunch
2:00 - 5:00 -> company work
5:00 - 5:30 -> Break, read or rest
5:30 - 7:00 -> Write, code or read (Do my work)
7:00 - 7:30 -> dinner
7:30 - 9:30 -> Write, code or read (Do my work)
9:30 - 10:00 -> Brush, skin care, meditate
10:00 - 10:30 -> Daily review, some reading then sleep\

Break -> Walk for 5-10 min, look out the window, Read 5-10 pages of a book

Ideal Weekend:

  • Finish a blog
  • Finish a video
  • Finish a book or a project

Review Cycles:

Daily: Spend 5 min writing down everything you learned that day in weekly update and twitter, Spend the next 5 min planning what you are going to do that next day.

Weekly (Every Sunday): Spend 15-30 min, writing the weekly update note. Talk about everything you learned and write down next week’s plans

Monthly (30th or 31st): Spend 30-60 min think if you were able to achieve everything you wanted, if not how can you improve your strategy.

Podcasts:

My first million
Lex Friedman
Founder
Diary of A CEO
All out

ML Blogs:

  • Horace he
  • Andrej
  • lil log
  • Sebastian
  • colah
  • jay alammar
  • count bayesie
  • chip huyen
  • Daniel han tweets, posts, unsloth etc
  • Umar jamil’s videos

Content to write about

  1. Transformers Laid out
  2. Making GPT-2 from scratch*
  3. Coding llama**
  4. Evolution of LLMs** [gpt-2,gpt-3,llama1/2/3, claude and how each are different and evolved over time]
  5. Stable Diffusion Laid out**
  6. Understanding Video Gen models**
  7. Fundamentals to Deep Learning and concepts you should know about**
  8. Python for Dummies**
  9. ML for Dummies**
  10. Python for not Dummies**
  11. ML for not Dummies**
  12. AI agents from first principles
  13. DL for Dummies
  14. ML maths for Dummies
  15. NLP from zero to one
  16. CV from zero to one
  17. RL from zero to one
  18. finish tech reports of qwen, deepseek, llama etc

Order of reading books

  1. MML
  2. DL with PyTorch + Dive into DL (in parallel)
  3. Understanding DL
  4. Build a LLM
  5. Professional C CUDA programming
  6. PMPP
  7. PPC
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