What I Want To Learn

A list, unfinished and unordered.

Finance & Economics #

• Angel investing
• Microeconomics
• Market microstructure
• Prediction markets
• Derivatives trading
• Risk modeling
• Energy markets
• Space launch economics
• Corporate finance & capital structure
• Venture financing (termsheets, SAFEs, preferred stock)
• Financial accounting for startups
• Payments & settlement systems
• Financial regulation (KYC/AML, securities law)
• Tax optimization
• Negotiation theory & practice

AI & Machine Learning #

• Game RL agents
• AI alignment
• Distributed training
• Spatial understanding
• Training LLMs
• LLM inference
• Robot VLAs
• Diffusion models
• Representation learning
• Sequence modeling (SSMs, RWKV, state-space variants)
• World models
• Multi-agent RL
• Causal inference
• Mechanistic interp
• LLM compression & distillation
• Retrieval (vector DBs, graph-based search, HNSW)

Bio & Neuro #

• BCIs
• Protein folding
• Synthetic biology
• Gain of function viruses
• Gene therapy and CRISPR
• Deep-sea ecosystems
• Algae farming
• Fermentation science
• Cellular & systems neuro (spiking models, population codes)
• Connectomics & network models of brains
• Biophysics of neurons & ion channels
• Neuroimaging (EEG, MEG, fMRI, calcium)
• Lab techniques (molecular bio, cell cultures, CRISPR wet labs)
• Synthetic gene circuits & genetic regulatory networks
• Metabolic engineering & industrial biotech
• Biostatistics
• Organoid computing
• Neuromorphic hardware

Computer Science & Mathematics #

• Sparse matrix theory
• Topological data analysis
• Complexity theory
• Dynamical systems & chaos
• Formal verification, proof assistants, and LEAN
• Tigerbeetle internals
• Memory allocator design
• Compression algorithms
• Information geometry
• Real analysis & measure theory
• Functional analysis
• Probability & stochastic processes
• Information theory
• Numerical optimization
• Graph theory & network science
• Homotopy & algebraic topology
• Category theory
• Optimal transport
• Operating systems (scheduling, virtual memory, syscalls)
• Computer architecture (pipelines, caches, vector units, NUMA)
• GPU arch
• SIMD, lock-free, cache-aware algos
• Databases (LSM trees, MVCC, query planners, OLAP)
• Networking (read beej's guide)
• Observability & SRE (tracing, metrics, SLIs/SLOs, incident response)
• Time-series systems & event streams

Robotics & Control Systems #

• PID controllers
• Robot kinematics
• Signal processing
• Soft robotics
• State estimation & filtering (Kalman, particle filters)
• SLAM
• Motion planning
• Model predictive control
• Legged locomotion & whole-body control
• Human-robot interaction

Philosophy & Theory #

• Philosophy of science, epistemology, logic, mathematics, mind, language, and artificial intelligence
• Hegel
• Kant
• Game theory

History & Law #

• Chinese history
• Forms of government
• History of Wall Street
• Geopolitics
• Roman legal theory
• Maritime law

Transportation & Space #

• Self-driving cars
• Air traffic control

Security & Cryptography #

• ZK proofs
• Modern symmetrics/asymmetric crypto
• Secure multiparty computation (+ FHE)
• Hardware security (sidechannels, SGX/TEE, Rowhammer)
• Binary exploitation, sandbox escapes
• Protocol design & formal analysis (Signal)
• Auth & identity systems (OAuth, OIDC)

Energy, Climate, Materials #

• Tokamak plasma physics
• Power systems engineering (grids, transmission, frequency control)
• Batteries & electrochemistry
• Heat engines & thermodynamic cycles
• Carbon capture
• Materials science basics (phase diagrams, defects, nanostructures)
• Nuclear engineering (fission reactors, fusion confinement)

Hardware & Electronics #

• Analog & digital circuit design
• Embedded systems (MCUs, RTOS)
• High-speed digital design (signal integrity, PCBs)
• Sensor fusion hardware (IMUs, depth, cameras)
• RF (antennas, wireless protocols)

Social Science & Behavior #

• Behavioral economics
• Cognitive biases
• Organizational design & incentive arch
• Institutional economics & state capacity
• Finding and hiring talent

Graphics & Media #

• Computer graphics
• Audio codecs
• Digital cartography
• Vocaloid

Natural Sciences #

• Meteorology fundamentals
• Nonlinear dynamics

Architecture & Design #

• Gothic architecture
• Interaction design
• Visual hierarchy & typography
• Motion design
• Sound design
• Color science

Language & Culture #

• Japanese
• Narrative design & story structure
• Historical linguistics and evolution
• Translation & localization

Misc #

• Text adventure games
• Urban planning
• Supply chain management

Arts & Hobbies #

• Poi spinning