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Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Out of curiosity, how did you get started with distributed systems side projects? Do you use e.g. a bunch of Docker containers or cloud VMs?

docker-compose is fantastic for playing around with to spin up a bunch of servers with one “docker-compose up” command on my local laptop.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?

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Learning deep dive into linux networking [ https://sysplay.in/index.php?pagefile=lnd_weekend_workshop ] /system programming[ https://sysplay.in/index.php?pagefile=lsp_online_training ] / algo-DS etc. Mostly through online courses in second half of 2019. Wasn't that enthused about them previously, but having attended one, those are not bad and have lot of flexibility in terms of schedule and not having to travel.

Hey there, a guy on the same path here. Care to be connected through twitter / fb ?

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Machine learning, kaggle competitions, trying out GPT2 and BERT, learnt c++, thinking of learning Julia and rust, started a community for teens interested in coding and machine learning (reddit.com/r/teensintech)

Trying to start your own ml research project. It's pretty hard especially when you don't have any formal credentials or training.

Is there anyone else here who's been doing ml research without a degree in ml?

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I started to learn machine learning relatively seriously. But I've always had issues with frameworks where the team goes out of their way to be clever rather than straightforward. ML frameworks to me are plagued with that. And I hate python. A lot. Mostly because of white space formatting. So, I decided to make my own neural net in C#. For fun, it'll never be released. I spent a solid month learning anything and ever…

Is this on GitHub? I'd love to take a look since I'm thinking of making my own ml library to learn more about how frameworks like pytorch and tensorflow work
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