I am finally going to learn to play the Piano. I have tried in the past and found I really enjoy the practicing yet I would let life get in the way and fall off.
That's great. Where are you learning it from?
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#12A Japanese language course at the community college after getting sort of burned out on apps and Anki decks. Hoping I can make friends with some native speakers, or at least other students interested in practice.
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#13In 2025 I want to:
- Learn to scratch like Hip-Hop DJs.
- Make one techno track that could pass off as something that a local DJ in some random city would play and that the people in that room would enjoy.
I have previously taken in-person piano lessons, and I've spent quite a bit of time in Ableton and with MPC X, and with a few different keyboards and a drum machine. I have a mid-range DJ controller at home, the Traktor Kontrol S4 MK3.
Music is a hobby for me, and I cannot dedicate anywhere near full time to it in 2025. But if I can do these two things, then 2025 would be a great year in terms of my music hobby.
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#14I’ve started learning piano using the Simply app paired with a keyboard. It’s been surprisingly fun and a nice mental break for me.
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#15MathAcademy was good but I just ran out of time every day to do it, and it was way too remedial for me. I was using it to learn advanced math relevant for my work, but it was taking me over stuff for standardized testing for high schoolers. The creator is active here and I sincerely think it’s a good product, but not right for me.
+1. I was excited for it and it sounded nice in theory but in practice it was just too much of a slog for me. I picked it up because I have a non-traditional math background and while I more or less know calc + LA, I do lack fluency with the concepts. Perhaps I am wrong, but at my level I feel that I don't need to go through 10 trivial variations of the same theme and many foundational concepts could be massively condensed. I am instead progressing much faster just picking up a textbook and referring back to precalculus books to fill in holes where needed.
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#16I am finally going to learn to play the Piano. I have tried in the past and found I really enjoy the practicing yet I would let life get in the way and fall off.
Same here! I started by myself going through Bartok’s mikrokosmos which has helped me a ton with reading but after getting my digital piano fixed in January (only the left half makes any sound) I’m starting with my own lessons.
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#18I really want to take the how to solve it with code jeremy howard course, but it was already full by the time that I heard about it. So I probably shouldn’t be mentioning it on this thread. LOL
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#19Taking a 3-month Salsa dance class starting early January. I've never been good at dance so I'm low key kind of excited. Might meet someone, too, you never know :)
Just curious, is this with some particular dance company or studio/instructor?
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#20Based on how helpful I found his earlier videos, I'm interested in checking our Andrej Karpathy's new ML course ( https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n?tab=readme-ov-file ) when it's ready.