{"id":1,"date":"2025-05-31T05:58:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:39:40","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The aim of this blog is to keep a journal of activities I wish to pursue. As I have found it hard to stick with a book, a course, a personal project, I herein set out to keep a journal of said enterprises in the vain hope that such record will help maintaining focus and, even if not uninterrupted, keeping track allows (hopefully) switching between interest with reduced overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A major issue I face when trying to stay with a specific venture is the abundance of interesting things one may pick up, books of essays, articles, projects and endeavours that lay at one&#8217;s very fingertips. I have five books open at the moment strewn across my desk, these being:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brothers Strugatsy&#8217;s Doomed City (in Russian)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Georges Simenon&#8217;s Yellow Dog (in French)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Camus&#8217; Plague (in French &#8211; probably the books I am through the most)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A collection of essays by Paul Valery (just started &#8211; in French again)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A murder of quality by John Le Carre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what interests, strides are to be covered by this journal &#8211; what ideas thus enclosed, what aims to be set forth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I want to self study math &#8211; the idea would be to start with an exercise a day (or a couple per week) from Rudin&#8217;s analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I want to learn web dev (whatever end) &#8211; thus also this blog, with its rudimentary theme to be developed by myself.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I want to do something with C++ &#8211; no clear idea yet how or what<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I want to combine the math with the programming to endevour into data science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and a million things more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I would also like to work with tools, and by so doing acquire the skill to use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Emacs for org mode, org mode for org roam (?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neovim for everything else<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arch Linux<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hardware building (a first endeavour building my own split keyboard was a mixed success)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Last but not least, I wish to pursue creative outlets &#8211; my main hobby is film photography, but I also want to pick up drawing again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, here goes. The blog is up for a year as paid in advance. Let&#8217;s see how far I get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of this blog is to keep a journal of activities I wish to pursue. As I have found it hard to stick with a book, a course, a personal project, I herein set out to keep a journal of said enterprises in the vain hope that such record will help maintaining focus and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peanutslost.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}