June 16th - June 22nd
Been quite busy doing apartment searching for new NYC apartment! Hopefully this whole process over soon but it's been a lot of tours, setting up tours, researching places etc...
I've been kind of doing a dive into RealPage's YieldStar rent setting algorithm to see how I can get the lowerst rent possible. It's kind of interesting to track the prices and the way they change. I'm thinking of writing a blog post about what I've found about their algorithm. Admittedly I've spent a bit too long going through historic listings to collect data and see how the prices update for what could be a minor cost saving.
I cut out the x-axis to not dox myself but it's interesting to see how the price of the apartment that I want's price has trended. I'm hoping it drops a little bit more before I try to put in an application. It's a bit of a game of chicken though because I'm not sure if anyone else is watching it and trying to snag it at a good price.
Also had to spend a bit of time sorting out which classes I'm going to take first semester at NYU!
Project
Finished Weight Decay paper and started on ReLU paper. The Weight decay paper was quite mathematically challenging and theoretical.
Math Academy
Decent ish XP. Around 200XP
ML Learning
Wrapping up Andrew Ng's course third part on RL!