Yesterday I finished kaggle’s sql course

I used the hint’s and solutions a lot. After I look at the solution I say well that was not that hard. But, before I look at the solution I was lost. I wanted to get through the sql course.

Before doing the kaggle sql course I had some experience with sql. I had went through some of khan academy’s sql course.

I want to get a lot better at sql. And I am going to have to get better at sql if I want to get better at machine learning or A.I. I think I can get better.

Right now I am still working through kaggle

courses. I am on the sql course. I want to do all the courses at once but, I figure if I work on one or two at a time I will eventual get through them all. That is the plan anyway. I don’t know if I will ever be good at machine learning. But, I am giving it a try. I know I need to learn more math.

I read a book called superminds

and so I thought why not put some of the websites I want to remember from that book on my blog.

One website I learned about is climate colab. Its a website where people can enter their ideas to help solve climate change. There are no contests right now though.

I also learned about topcoder. Which is a website for programmers.

Another website I learned about in the book is foldit. I already knew about foldit but, have never tried it. I think I might give it a try. I am not sure I will be any good at it but, who knows.

I have not used blender

in months. The newest version of blender I have used is 2.78. The first version of blender so I have no experience using a newer version of blender. I don’t know when I will ever use blender again but, when I do use it again I want to get good at it.

Probably the number one thing I am interested in doing with blender is making animations. I hope to get better at writing songs and then make music videos for those songs using blender. I don’t know if making a music video animation with blender would take to long. But, I hope to try to make at least one music video.

I watched a episode of the

show PBS”s nature about wild bees in a videographers backyard. He said there were 60+ different species of bees in his backyard.

He shot video of the bees in slow motion. It never occurred to me that bees fly to fast so you need to video them in slow motion to be able to see what they are doing. It was also interesting that he got to know a few different bees.

I don’t think I have ever seen 60 types of wild bees in person. The only bees I know I have seen for sure are honey bees, bumble bees, maybe sunflower bees, and carpenter bees. This is the first year that I have ever seen a carpenter bee up close. I am not sure of the exact species of any of the bees.

I hope that one day maybe I will be able to identify the exact type of honey bee or bumble bee or even wild bees that I see in the wild. Its so exciting to see different types of bees. It would be even more exciting to know what type they are.

I have to grow dragon fruit

someday. I first saw it in a book I read about growing fruit’s in pots. And in that book I think it also said that the authors daughter said that Dragon fruit was her favorite fruit.

To me it looks delicious. Its red on the outside with white flesh with little black seeds in the flesh. I think the flesh is supposed to be custard or pudding like. And to me the fruit looks a little like Artichoke on the outside. I also like the leaves of the plant. I think dragon fruit is a type of cactus.

I don’t know if I want to get a dragon fruit plant or grow it from seed. Maybe I can get both a plant and grow it from seed. I don’t think Dragon fruit is hard to grow.

Another citizen science project I might try

I read an article about helping to find exoplanets by extremetech. It seems like it might be harder to do then identify Terrain on mars. But, how cool would it be to help find an exoplanet. I think it would be very cool.

I wonder if I ever helped find an exoplanet if I could get it named after me. Probably not. Though its fun to think of having an exoplanet named after me.

I read an article

by extremetech about helping to identify pictures for Mars Perseverance rover. You have to identify the Terrain for the rover which will help its AI so the rover can move around on mars. I think. Any way I thought how cool. Its hosted on zooniverse.

I had have known about zooniverse for awhile and always wanted to sign up for it. And this time I finally did. I went through the tutorial for how to identify the terrain. The tutorial does not take long to go through.

To me marking out the terrain for a mars rover seems exciting. But, it also makes me wonder will I be able to mark the pictures right? Or will I be terrible at it. So I want to give identifying the terrain in the pictures a try and see if I am any good at it.

And another thing I like about it is that I get to look at pictures of mars

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