Ask HN: What are you learning? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by iratewizard » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

ericax wrote: post #78

World-building. After reading about storytelling, I realized that I'm as fascinated to a well-crafted world as good plots and characters. There's not much to read about, as a fiction world can contain as much detail as the real world. I'm spending time looking at the fiction worlds that I like and taking them apart. As an exercise, imagining places and races is also interesting. You'll be amazed by the amount of deta…

You would probably have fun building a hard magic system. Hard magic being a system that has strict rules for how things work. Soft magic being Gandalf style where how it works and how it's limited is unknown.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by whitehouse3 » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

snarfy wrote: post #34

Synthesizers and modular synths.

I bought Omnisphere and a 25-key MIDI controller yesterday. I wanted for years to learn digital music production, but didn’t because I was busy. This quarantine gave me the chance to dedicate real time to it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by baby » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

I'm writing a book at the moment[1], which means all my learning is focused on the table of content I made up a year ago.

But if I had time on my hand I would learn about:

* Adobe after effect not to only to edit videos but to animate!

* Illustrator, because it's the basis of any graphics

* Blender, because I want to learn about 3D graphics and this seems to be the reference

* Unity, a gaming engine, because I've always wanted to make a FPS game

* Phaser, an HTML5 gaming engine, because I want to make a multiplayer game with websockets. I'm thinking of starting with an online board game though.

[1]: https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography?a_aid=...

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by dorchadas » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

Right now, I'm learning math. I met a PhD via Discord who is giving me problems to work and checking my solutions. It's been quite fun so far, working on Real Analysis and Abstract Algebra.

I'm also doing baking; baked my first loaf of bread yesterday. Really interested to learn (and eat!) more.

I'm tempted to pick up a cheap instrument and learn one as well, or delve back into Python some more. Or drawing. My main issue is focusing now, sadly. Any tips there would be appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by why-el » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

EnderMB wrote: post #138

I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies. A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company comi…

No sane person will hate on your studying, you are doing what you gotta do to survive, good luck out there friend.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by shock » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

anfractuosity wrote: post #157

I'm working on learning KiCad + FPGAs, I've been making a little PCB, I can plug into my FPGA board (via a PMOD interface), to drive some WS2812B lighting strips via VHDL. I've sent the PCB off to a fab, who will do the SMD assembly part too for me :) Will be a couple of weeks before it arrives I think. I need to work on an SPI interface next in VHDL which will need to interface with BRAM which will act as the 'frame…

I've recently started learning KiCad too. Which fab did you send your PCB to?

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by dade_ » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

https://www.fast.ai/ Practical deep learning for coders. Also Synapse Matrix homeserver.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by qtcake » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

I've been scoping out new (to me) infrastructure tech. Nomad, Spinnaker, Packer to name a few. It's been very enlightening.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by selfish-duck » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:33 PM UTC

brainlessdev wrote: post #126

I'm learning how to build a backend for a web app using TypeORM, GraphQL and Apollo Server. I'm a frontend developer. Also, I've been toying with OBS Studio to learn how to make more professional video recordings to showcase applications at work, or bug reproductions, documentation, etc.

Hey, I recommend checking out type-graphql and especially Nexus to work with GraphQL on server-side. If you want to go serious about GraphQL I also recommend reading Production-ready GraphQL. I've been working with gql for 4 years now but this book really deepened how I think about modelling my schemas, queries and mutations.

All the best on your learning journey!

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by anfractuosity » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 9:34 PM UTC

shock wrote: post #166

anfractuosity wrote: post #157

I'm working on learning KiCad + FPGAs, I've been making a little PCB, I can plug into my FPGA board (via a PMOD interface), to drive some WS2812B lighting strips via VHDL. I've sent the PCB off to a fab, who will do the SMD assembly part too for me :) Will be a couple of weeks before it arrives I think. I need to work on an SPI interface next in VHDL which will need to interface with BRAM which will act as the 'frame…

I've recently started learning KiCad too. Which fab did you send your PCB to?

I used JLCPCB, it cost around £20 for 5 boards with the assembly (it's definitely cheaper without assembly), my board is pretty simple assembly-wise, a level converter, resistors, capacitors and diodes.

Re. kicad, I played with the push and shove routing feature for my board, which I found really nifty.