Week 34, 2025

Weekly log · · updated November 9, 2026

Focus: Interview prep and fundamentals. Related: AI researcher

Reading list:

Thu, Aug 21

Blind 75 Study

  • it would be interesting if I finish them tomorrow, I see no blockers that would prevent me from finishing them.
  • I will create demo (home coding project) over the weekend
  • At least 5 loom videos (trie, bfs, dfs, backtrack, LRU)
  • Apply for roles at Stripe, Block, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Netflix (30 roles)

Fri, Aug 22

  • Cloudflare interview
  • Building large language model
  • LoTR

Sat, Aug 23

  • Working on system design

Sun, Aug 24

  • continue working on system design (DDIA)