A PKM is a tool (like this one!) to help manage your nodes and knowledge.

• storing AND processing; just storing is just PIM not PKM
• PKM = PIM (personal info management) + GTD + knowledge management
• goal: narrowing “flood” and focus on useful areas
• move from passive => active consumption
• create, not just regurgitate

PKM and Context

• store info based on context

Strategy

• What are you trying to organize
• what are the inputs?
  • email? lectures?:
    • “reference” type emails
    • lecture notes
    • tasks?
• what are you trying to make?
  • test? essays?
    • a time blocking schedule
    • studying for tests (i.e. for linear, etc.)
• what does your process look like?
  • mishmash of topic based notes and content based notes
• what parts of it would you like to improve?
  • article capture workflow: how to process random readings topic wise?
  • knowledge capture: how to come across new content and capture them somewhere?
  • todo/notes integration: task management and note taking currently lives separately, how to unify them?

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Key ideas

• appreciating PL as a techincal field
  • OS people cares only about dynamic system—build a good runtime/OS, etc.
  • PL people cares only about static system—build a compiler, etc.
• think systematically about PL tools
• what we can do, what we can’t do, what will be able to do
• basics of active research in PL

equal in expressive power

• SKI calculus
• Lambda calculus
• Turing machines

Lectures

• SU-CS242 SEP242024

Combinator Calculus

• SU-CS242 SEP262024
• SU-CS242 OCT012024

Lambda Calculus

• SU-CS242 OCT032024
• SU-CS242 OCT102024
• SU-CS242 OCT152024
• SU-CS242 OCT172024

Objects

• SU-CS242 OCT242024

Programming Abstractions and Logic Programming

• SU-CS242 OCT312024
• SU-CS242 NOV072024
• SU-CS242 NOV142024
• SU-CS242 NOV192024

Contravariance

• SU-CS242 NOV212024
• SU-CS242 DEC032024

A decision making method using search on a model of the problem to be able tom make decisions.

1. create a (usually deterministic, but for CS238 we care only about non-deterministic cases) model of the problem or a good approximation thereof
2. use the model to plan for possible next actions to yield for a good solution

contrast v. explicit programming

explicit programming requires you to plan for the action

1. we start at an initial belief point
2. we do a random Rollout to get to the next belief

then collect