Happy New Year 2025!

My 2025 New Year Resolutions. Reflect on 2024. Writing it down for 2025 to make it more accountable

My 2024 New Year Resolutions

• Data Science/Coding
  • I’m going to devote more time in Python Learnt Polars as well
  • Complete my neural network study. Almost!
  • Learn more about conformal prediction and apply it ESICM 2025 Datathon
  • Attempt to use tidymodels for all analysis and recipes to explore preprocessing techniques
• Statistics
  • Continue my journey in Causal Inference
    • Re-read Causal Inference and Discovery in Python
    • Dive into McElReath’s Statistical Rethinking
• Health/Wellness
  • At least 10 push-ups everyday with +1 every week
  • No 75th1 on 854
• Soft skills
  • Establish “Coaching” questions link
  • Find out staff’s favorite food, color, activities and write it down

Wow, what a year! We did devote a bit more time in python. Learnt polars in python, stable diffusion, LLM, now we’re venturing into fastAPI, all thanks to Positron where we can perform single line/chunk code execution really helps me understand the underlying structure and function of the script. That’s definitely a win!

I also was not expecting us to learn more about conformal prediction but the datathon really pushed us to look into this much deeper. At least we learn the surface of conformal prediction on how it works, which is fascinating! The book Introduction To Conformal Prediction With Python: A Short Guide For Quantifying Uncertainty Of Machine Learning Models was really helpful! Also Anastasio’s Youtube Tutorial have been beneficial as well. At least for me, I had to re-read and re-watch all of the video, code it, to understand the surface of the theory. Really glad we did it!

I finally finished watching McElReath’s Statistical Rethinking! What a great course. I will need to rewatch it this year to get a bit more solidification in Gaussian Process, etc.

Last but not least, very thankful that we were able to finish all those coaching books and wrote notes about it and also practiced it with peer coaching.

My Coaching Notes Series:

• My Coaching Notes: The Map - Navigating the Coaching Path
• My Coaching Notes: Effective Coaching
• My Coaching Notes: Coaching Process
• My Coaching Notes: Essential Coaching Skills
• My Coaching Notes: Mindful Coaching

Something I was not expecting was the involvement of IDSky in Bluesky. Got a bit more closer with ATproto, still don’t completely understand it but it opened up the experience in creating a simple API, which is very exciting!

My 2025 New Year Resolutions

• Explore Gimp
• Explore useful VIM key binding
• Learn nodejs, javascript, fasthtml, fashapi, plumber to create a simple tool for calling API and storing data
• Explore and implement LLM-assisted learning scenarios for eval score calibration (DE Level 3)
• re-create automation at wrk
• ?sti dashboard
• Complete my neural network study. This time we’re getting close!
• Practice 华语
• Dive into McElReath’s Statistical Rethinking 2nd time
• Maintain coaching skill and practice more! ?reach out to CECM for 2
• Finish 2 manuscripts