# 2019 Retrospective

DevFeed: [2019 Retrospective](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/2019-retrospective-40113.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://korbonits.com/blog/2020-01-01-retrospective-on-2019/>)

Published: 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Alex Korbonits](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/alex-korbonits.md>)

Topics: [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>), [Natural language processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nlp.md>), [Hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugo.md>), [bert](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bert.md>), [math](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math.md>)

Tags: [bert](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bert.md>), [books](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/books.md>), [hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugo.md>), [japan](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/japan.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [math](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/math.md>), [nlp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nlp.md>), [poetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/poetry.md>), [retrospective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrospective.md>)

## AI overview

A personal retrospective on 2019 covering sailing, travel, reading, writing, language learning, fitness, organization, technology use, and relationships. The author reached a goal of reading 50 books, explored NLP papers including BERT, and attended fiction courses at Hugo House.

## Source excerpt

Looking back on 2019 -- sailing, travel to Japan, books, and the best surprise of the year.