Week 6: Advanced Graphs, 1-D DP
Oct 20–26 · Target times: Easy ≤ 10m · Medium ≤ 22m · Hard ≤ 40m
Daily routine: 75 min DSA (timed) + 10 min syntax typing + 35 min second block. Talk out loud. No AI autocomplete. Over cap → 48h redo queue.
DSA problems (75 min, timed)
Second block (35 min) — System Design + CS: SD practice + first mocks
2 full SD prompts out loud (systemdesign.io / Exponent — attempt first, then compare). Revisit weak OS/DBMS/networking. Outcome: complete a 45-min SD mock unaided.
DSA problems (75 min, timed)
Second block (35 min) — ML/DL: Loss, optimization, regularization
Cross-entropy, focal loss (imbalanced — your domain), dropout, batchnorm, LR schedules. Most important: justify loss/regularization for imbalanced data. Outcome: defend a choice in 2 min.
DSA problems (75 min, timed)
Second block (35 min) — System Design + CS: SD practice + first mocks
2 full SD prompts out loud (systemdesign.io / Exponent — attempt first, then compare). Revisit weak OS/DBMS/networking. Outcome: complete a 45-min SD mock unaided.
DSA problems (75 min, timed)
Second block (35 min) — ML/DL: Loss, optimization, regularization
Cross-entropy, focal loss (imbalanced — your domain), dropout, batchnorm, LR schedules. Most important: justify loss/regularization for imbalanced data. Outcome: defend a choice in 2 min.
DSA problems (75 min, timed)
Second block (35 min) — System Design + CS: SD practice + first mocks
2 full SD prompts out loud (systemdesign.io / Exponent — attempt first, then compare). Revisit weak OS/DBMS/networking. Outcome: complete a 45-min SD mock unaided.
🚀 PROJECT 2 — Inference server (FINISH weekend)
Add batched/queued vs naive comparison, monitoring (Prometheus/metrics), Docker + GitHub Actions CI, README with latency/throughput chart. Push. Milestone: Project 2 live.
Also: 1 system-design practice out loud. Redo any DSA problem that went over cap (48h queue).