I took a break from a toxic big tech job.
I spent a couple months travelling.
Then I spent a couple months trying to use transformer-based models of sorts to detect short-lived inefficiencies in the stock market to try to create a passive income trading bot. I know short-term quant trading is super hard to be profitable, but Rentech did it, so I figured I'd throw a couple months at it.
Then I spent another couple months on AI for science, robotic lab automation, and trying to get AI to do AI research inside a Docker container.