TODO2.txt

2024-04-08: Looking for future research interests...
2026-03-31: updated, especially with thought that I can use LLMs to extend my notes.
2026-05-06: still reviewing old notes for interesting subjects. Project is taking a while because baby!

- Math
  - Make sure eigenvector, SVD notes are complete/accurate.
  - Some basic ordinary differential equation stuff?
- AI/ML
  - Review all AI notes to find more stuff to re-review?
  - Especially using for self-learning.
  - Alpha Go, Alpha Zero.
  - Try to get a reinforcement learner working better? Get my Deep Q Network to work.
  - Kernel trick
  - Transformer models. Attention models.
  - Make sure monte carlo tree search writeup is tight.
  - I think Neural Turing Machine didn't go anywhere? Do I have a writeup?
- Computer Science
  - Error correcting codes (parity, CRC, Reed Solomon)
  - Operational transforms and CRDTs
  - Reverse image search
  - Anything else important in text search/information retrieval?
  - Review crypto stuff? Maybe review cryptocurrency weaknesses?
  - Elliptical Curves? Lattice based crypto?
  - Zero knowledge proofs, interactive proofs, zcash.
- Thermodynamics, Refrigeration
  - Carnot efficiency
  - Refrigeration cycle
  - Role of cooling towers in maintaining pressure or something?
  - Gibbs, entropy, et cetera. What drives endothermic/exothermic reactions.
  - Turbines.
- Electronics, Electromagnetism
  - Induction motors
  - Induction for pickups.
  - Photovoltaic cells
  - Power inverter
  - Transistors
  - More basic electronics.
  - How amplifiers work 2.0.
  - Reactance
  - What is cause of transparency of materials.
- Bernoulli's principle (important for carborateurs)
- OTHER
- Maybe explore lower-level CUDA programming or GPU architecture.
- Gyroscopes?
- Finish notes on curl operator.
- Microwave oven; MRI.
- Explore weaknesses of bitcoin?
- Quaternions. Euler rotations.
- Traveling Salesperson
- Axiom of Choice: I wrote a lot of notes in Notion I think?
- Optics/lens making
- Chaos theory needs to be better described?
- AM vs FM transmission: do I have it figured out?
- Amplifiers.
- Wavelet transform. Laplace transform.
- Make sure Arrow impossibility theorem result is tightly explained? Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem.
- What was that Freeman Dyson paper on Prisoner's dilemma?
- Distributed reputation systems?

## TO REVIEW

This is from a earlier, weaker review, that didn't look at each file's
contents carefully.

./math/quadratic-optimization.md
./math/quaternions.pdf
./math/quaternions.tex
./math/singular-value-decomposition.md
./math/space-of-sinusoidal-functions.md
./math/variational-inference.md
./randos/automotive/engines/TODO.md
./randos/computer-science-problem-areas.md
./randos/consciousness.md
./randos/cpu-architecture.md
./randos/crypto.md
./randos/heating-and-cooling.md
./randos/inventions.md
./randos/lattice-based-crypto.md
./randos/make-electronics/make-electronics.pdf
./randos/make-electronics/make-electronics.tex
./randos/online-electircal-engineering-courses.md
./randos/physics
./randos/physics/am-vs-fm.txt
./randos/physics/art-of-electronics.md
./randos/physics/cells-and-batteries.md
./randos/physics/drude-model.md
./randos/physics/electrical-generation.md
./randos/physics/electrical-transformers.md
./randos/physics/electricity.md
./randos/physics/electricity2.md
./randos/physics/endothermic-and-exothermic-reactions.md
./randos/physics/power-generation.md
./randos/pumps.md
./randos/turbojets.md
./randos/zero-knowledge-proof.md
./randos/zk-snarks.md

-- RE-RE-REVIEW

Closely this time, looking at each file's contents. This is quite
comprehensive. I am going folder-by-folder.

Also review old Github repositories!
Review my personal notes? There is tech stuff there?

not yet reviewed:
ai
databases
distributed-systems
math
randos

algos:
esoteric-data-structures.md
graphs.md
randomized-algos.md
string-matching.md

CTrie vs HAMT?

Closest pair of points randomized algorithm.

sorts-parallel2.md

Review Garbage Collection notes: garbage-collection.md
truffle ruby? graalpy. invokedynamic?
I have no notes on web assembly/wasm? Maybe add to my emscripten notes?

Maybe review web/architecture-lecture notes, and also Slides from Google
drive?

Concurrency stuff:
mutex.md: MCS and CLH spinlocks.
cache-coherence.md: Directory based CC.
cache-coherence.md: Cost of CAS and TAS/how it is implemented. Explore cost of TTAS vs TAS spinlock.
cache-coherence.md: Last unported "Memory Consistency" section.
Maybe discuss DCAS vs other primitives with regard to cache coherency?

TODO: What are chiplets? They're small chips you glue together,
increasing yield. Makes most sense with newest process nodes with
highest cost and lowest yield. Also, you can glue them to parts made on
old processes if those are not performance critical.

Need to understand CUDA's dominance.
CPU Architecture notes from Notion.