TMP Day 1: Introducing three months long backbreaking goals

August 24, 2017

Challenging my limits - Completing 4 ridiculously difficult programs in a year.

TMP — Tri-Month-Pack program

What exactly is a Tri-Month-Pack?

TMP is a challenging program similar to M2M (Month to Master) by Max Deutsch. Hereby, I shall complete four herculean 3-Month goals, designed in such a way that their progress can be numerically monitored and that they have a specific target rather than an abstract concept (like “Being able to run at 18 km/hr for 20 mins straight without break” and not “Being able to run fast”).

The four projects are as follows:

• Sep-Nov: Developing GhostTime: An anonymous social network.
• Dec-Feb: Developing an Introspection Tool which helps you monitor your schedule.
• March-May: Developing an AI system which can generate good, high quality music.
• June-Aug: Achieving a national rating of less than 1000 on codechef

FAQ

Q. Why are you doing this?

Because I am an avid learner and maintaining accountability in this way would help me avoid procrastination and ultimately help me in learning much more effectively.

Q. How did you come up with this list?

• GhostRider

  My dear friend A.V .I. came up with the beautiful idea of having an anonymous social network and from then onwards I have been praising the idea. I would love to see it a reality.

• Schedule Visualiser

  I have a habit of procrastination and find myself wasting too much time writing, analysing and drawing my routine. I always wanted to automate it.

• AI Music Generation

  It came up in a casual conversation with one of my friends while discussing neural networks and the idea stuck to me from then on. Also, I am learning about Machine Learning and this would be a beautiful application. ;-)

• Competitive Programming

  Having been contributing to open source projects for a while now have made me familiar to the process of Software Developement, but I still consider my Computer Science skills to be subpar. Competitive Programming provides a great way to ensure that I keep on track.

Q. How much time will you be spending working on these projects?

I am an Engineering student at Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology, AMU and there would be examinations, assignments, community activities, co-curricular participation nearly during every project. I also appreciate OSS development and hack actively on coala and vulture. Other than this, gym also takes up some of my time daily.

I prefer to work on these projects on leave-days and week-ends and during my free time.

Q. How do you plan to monitor your progress?

I shall monitor my progress by writing a brief journal entry in the form of a Blog Post everyday. Also, I shall keep track of what’s going on through a private gitlab repository which shall have respective milestones much like https://gitlab.com/coala/GSoC-2017.