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What I've been doing:
I have been re-learning basic calculus stuff and covering my embarrassing flaws in that area. I might get laughed at for lacking such a basic skill, but I have finally figured out a general way for finding limits of rational functions defined on the complex plane. Yes, finding limits used to be my weakest math skill, along with basically the entirety of number theory. Yes, I got to understand general topology before I understood how limits work because I either missed or was not properly explained them in secondary education. Yes, I'm afraid of numbers. Throw tomatoes at me.
I have been brushing up on SQL and Lateχ.
I have been learning Blender and continue to work on a Blender project for someone else' birthday.
I am almost finished with Polya's 'How to Solve It'. I have so far not found much use in it (I am not coming empty-handed from it, though), as I picked up those techniques a long time ago.
I have been trying to get employed. Got rejected for being overqualified, as I have shared in another post.
Plans for this week:
Keep re-learning math stuff. I nominate real analysis, probability theory, algebra as this week's primary subjects. In particular, I want to commit to memory theorems on averages for integrals, Cauchy-Bunyakovski inequality, exercise producing random variable distributions from a given uniform distribution, exercise solving systems of linear equations, experiment a bit with tensors.
Finish brushing up on SQL and Lateχ.
Fix those shoulder blades in Blender.
Finish 'How to Solve It'.
Keep trying to regain employment.
Take another stab at reading 'Capital' without assistance, perhaps? (I do hate the way Marx and philosophers in general write their works. As somebody who reads math texts daily, works like 'Capital' could have been made much more understandable.)
Try to resume physical exercise.
Streaks:
I have successfully made myself study and/or do something 'productive' every day. I have overcome my anxieties when dealing with most of the relevant stuff. Every day, I go to sleep a better person than I was the day prior.
Several months of almost-daily walks outside. I am a grass-toucher.
Duolingo Putonghua 2-day streak after a couple of years of pause.
Resources for others:
I can be your resource if you have math questions. I can also find you actual math resources and textbooks.
You're making a ton of progress! Keep it up.