i really feel the same way. i would identify another niche, limited university-like courses. Something like google's 20%, but instead of persuing your side-proj

i really feel the same way. i would identify another niche, limited university-like courses. Something like google's 20%, but instead of persuing your side-project, you just take one lectures, tutorial and a seminar every friday morning (may be a high workload, you could also switch between seminars and lectes every semester). While not much, i would would guess that it really accumulates over the years, motivates you to keep on learning and deepening your knowledge while being high quality and rigorous (in math i think this is really important). I am interested in Machine Learning and there is just so. much. to. learn. I am currently a student, but i really don't know how to master the life-long learning in these more theoretic aspects. Universities are just made for this. From analysis, probability theory, statistics to information theory there is an abundance in things that are relevant to this field.