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Loved this installment, as always !

Could relate a lot to making little progress on a lot of projects but not taking any to a logical conclusion. Dont beat yourself up too much about it . The trick is to recognize it & take remedial action.

Just curious what prompted you to make the language learning tool as its quite different from research paper summarization ?

Loved the quotes from Ryan Holiday & Marcus Aurelius !

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Yeah, that's a fair point. Top reason is that I'm solving a personal pain point - as I'm learning Spanish right now. Also, I've seen a load of good research paper summarisation tools pop-up, but there's some concrete language learning tool ideas I have that I don't think exist yet

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Thank you for sharing Chris, it's great to hear how you've managed to find the perfect balance that suits you and works around your interests & loved ones, spoke to Stu Maitland who mentioned you were freelancing, I'm in a similar situation where I'm hoping to quite after FY1, where are you currently freelancing? Is it enough do you reckon?

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I'm freelancing for a few different companies and research groups across Europe and US. Basically, teams who have health data and want somebody with medical background to come in and do data science / build ML models.

For me, this is enough to financially sustain myself. But it took quite a lot of work, projects (and a masters in ML) to get to the point where I can do so.

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