Adam Boult

Projects

ArtificialEconomist.com. Ask an artificial economist any question.

Economoose.com. Explore economic data.

YetiPredict.com. Track your own predictions, privately or publicly, to check you are on track and are planning accurately.

Notes

Mathematics

• Logic, the natural numbers and computability (pdf)
• Algebra (pdf)
• Real and complex analysis (pdf)

Basic physics

• Geometry (pdf)
• Non-relativistic field theory (pdf)
• Rigid body physics (pdf)

Computer science

• Computer science and integer RISC instructions (ARM) (pdf)
• Floating point algorithms (pdf)
• Freestanding C (pdf)
• Data structures and algorithms (pdf)

Statistics

• Univariate probability (pdf)
• Multivariate probability (pdf)
• Multivariate probability discriminative including machine learning (pdf)
• Fully-connected neural networks (pdf)
• Univariate time series (pdf)
• Multivariate time series (pdf)
• Multivariate probability inference (pdf)
• Probabilistic Turing machines and algorithms, and encryption (pdf)

Applied statistics

• Computer vision (pdf)
• Statistics for audio and text, and multi-modal models (pdf)

Science

• Statistical mechanics (pdf)
• Relativistic field theory (pdf)
• Quantum mechanics and quantum computing (pdf)
• Chemistry and geology (pdf)
• Biology (pdf)
• Engineering (pdf)
• Electronics (pdf)

Computers

• Manufacturing CPUs and peripherals (pdf)
• Floating Point Units (FPUs), cache, other Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) and Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) (pdf)
• Audio (pdf)
• 2D graphics (pdf)
• 3D graphics (pdf)
• Multithreading, multi-core CPUs, Graphics Processing Units, and Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) (pdf)
• Reverse engineering hardware, hardware emulation, and emulation of retro video game systems (pdf)

Operating systems

• Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) (pdf)
• Memory Mapping Units (MMUs), protection rings and GNU/Linux/Systemd (pdf)
• Hosted C and Compiling C code with Linux (pdf)
• Securing the system and boot process: Including encrypting systems, Logical Volume Management (LVM), trusted execution environment, secure enclave, Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (pdf)
• Networks (pdf)
• Serialisation, single-node databases, Structured Query Language (SQL) and Extract-Transform-Load/Extract-Load-Transform (pdf)
• Audio and video output in Linux, and sandboxing applications (pdf)

Other compiled languages

• Other imperative languages: Fortran, Algol, Pascal, Cobol (pdf)
• Functional languages: Meta Language (ML), Caml and Haskell (pdf)
• C++, objects, generic programming and clang/LLVM (pdf)
• Java, garbage collection, process virtual machines and Kotlin (pdf)
• Other C-family languages: Rust, Nim, Zig and Objective-C (pdf)
• Communicating sequential processes (CSP) and actor model concurrent languages: Erlang, Elixer, Swift, Go (pdf)
• Other compiled languages: Forth, Smalltalk and Simula (pdf)
• Scheme (pdf)
• Other Lisp-family languages: Racket, Common Lisp, Clojure and Scala (pdf)
• Reverse engineering software (pdf)

Interpreted languages and languages with runtimes

• Python (pdf)
• Python: Data (pdf)
• Python: Internet packages (pdf)
• R (pdf)
• Specific packages for R (pdf)
• Working with specific datasets, and models including Llama and Stable Diffusion (pdf)
• Other interpreted languages: STATA, Lua, Perl, Ruby, Julia, PHP and FreeBASIC (pdf)

Web development

• HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the World Wide Web (WWW) (pdf)
• JavaScript and WebAssembly (Wasm) (pdf)
• Server-side javascript and javascript frameworks and libraries (pdf)

More on Linux

• Specific Linux distributions, system virtual machines, hardware-assisted virtualisation and OS-level virtualisation with Docker (pdf)
• Distributed computing (pdf)
• Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) (pdf)
• Android (pdf)

Other non-Linux operating systems

• FreeBSD and OpenBSD (pdf)
• Windows 3.x, Windows 9x and Windows NT (pdf)
• Classic Mac OS, macOS and iOS (pdf)

Economics

• Decision and game theory (pdf)
• General equilibrium (pdf)
• Industrial organisation (pdf)
• Money, banking and finance (pdf)
• Microeconomics (pdf)
• Macroeconomics (pdf)
• Public choice (pdf)

Philosophy

• History (pdf)
• Epistemology and ontology (pdf)
• Political science and philosophy (pdf)