Ask HN: What are you currently learning in your spare time? • Hacker News Board

HiLo wrote: post #9

Although I already have my finance degree and wouldn't so much need it, getting my CFA is a near-term goal. Learning wise, trying to completely re-learn mathematics, starting with books like the Mathematicians Delight and beginning with the most basic arithmetic, hopefully up through diffy q's, linear algebra, and intermediate stat. If anybody has any good tips on completely teaching yourself math from start to finis…

Good luck with the CFA! It's a great program. I didn't expect it at first, but the best lesson I got out of it was that it taught me how to study and teach myself a subject comprehensively.

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Post by sdogruyol » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 6:20 PM UTC

Learning Crystal and making useful stuff with it. E.g a Sinatra like web framework with 10x performance https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal

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Post by rndstr » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 6:27 PM UTC

I'm digging into Android Wear and writing an app. It's nice but it needs a lot of boilerplate code to set up communication between mobile and wear. Once set up and understood it's pretty straightforward

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Post by ThrustVectoring » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 6:48 PM UTC

I've been picking up a skill that's probably best described as "living as a body" (as opposed to identifying with and being the thoughts in your head). To borrow terms from Thinking Fast and Slow, it's deliberately acting more from a System 1 kind of place.

Recommended reading - "The Inner Game of Tennis" and "Impro" by Keith Johnstone. These are pretty easy reads and have helped me out tremendously in unexpected ways.

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Post by falcolas » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 6:59 PM UTC

After several years of wanting to play an instrument, and wanting to draw, I'm sitting down and actually doing both of those. It's been a bit liberating, doing something so different from my day job, yet it's helping me look at programming in a new light.

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Post by mazsa » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 7:01 PM UTC

converting political order into set theory http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html