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Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by wallflower »

jeb wrote: post #4

I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year. Difficult, but I assume interesting.

Previously on News.YC:

"Optimizing your wife

If a man can expect to meet exactly N eligible women in his life, what strategy should he use to maximize his chances of choosing the very best one?"

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath018/kmath018.htm

Just curious, are you attempting to quantitatively rank the candidates in a spreadsheet, especially the intangibles like 'as potential mother'?

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Post by thestoicattack »

felideon wrote: post #12

To do research in natural language processing. Roadblocks: * Time. Or if time = money then I need money to be able to spend time on this. Also, in itself this wouldn't bring in much income I don't think. * No CS background. Don't know where to start.

What part of NLP? It's actually a pretty wide field.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by mattm »

Become one of the world's top salsa dancers by 2020.

Current roadblock is that I'm just not doing it enough. I get distracted by other interests of mine. I was previously practising 3 times a week (which probably still isn't enough) but lately I'm only going once a week.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by dgallagher »

jeb wrote: post #4

I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year. Difficult, but I assume interesting.

You should watch "The Invention of Lying." I think you'll like it. :)

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by metastew »

elomar wrote: post #3

I want to leave mommy's house and start living as a "digital nomad", moving from country to country every few months as I want. I want to know the world a little better. The most obvious roadblock is making money along the way. My plan is to do it by launching a small web product, blogging about the travel, working as a local on countries where I'm allowed to, and doing some freelance programming work. I have at leas…

I'm doing the same. Have you read Life Nomadic? The guy who wrote it did exactly what you're aspiring to do and he seemed to do alright for himself.

I'm building up my programming skills and saving up 2 year's worth of money (as well as paying off any outstanding debts) before embarking on this grand adventure.

by the way of advices, I guess I can only say just keep a tight lid on your wallet; spend it only on necessities, like food, shelter, and bills.

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