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Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

#21
Symbolic logic. Years ago, I did a paper in logic which my professors initially took to be of publishable quality. They took a closer look and decided that I needed to clean it up a bit.

I've finished reviewing Aristotelian logic and am now going deep into modern logic. I don't know for sure, but I have a hunch that my paper will be of use to mathematicians.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

#23
Haskell, and functional programming at the same time. In school I wasn't properly introduced to it (learned some Lisp on paper, during half a semester, and that's it). It's quite the steep road so far, especially since I can only work on it during spare bits of time.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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post #17

After interacting with a few lawyers I realized I am severely lacking in communication and people skills. Their emails were inviting but not over the top. My emails were either too curt or too verbose. When talking to people face to face, I also work on adding value without rambling. Breathing more helps a lot. And for fun I'm learning how to draw. Here is some of my work. http://www.redbubble.com/people/kelukelu htt…

I really need to do this too. Programming and social skills are each others' enemies. How are you learning to draw? Did you check out http://drawright.com ?

Yes! I heard draw right is a really good book. But learning how to draw is like learning how to program: too many resources can cause analysis paralysis. I really just need to shut up and draw

The first thing I did was draw the alphabet every day. For example, I would draw something that started with the letter a, then the letter b the next day, etc. It took me more than a month to finish but I saw a huge skill improvement from the later drawings.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

#26
Electronics. I got started with a spare Raspberry Pi a friend gave me. I got hooked and test as much things I can get my hands on. I now have a BeagleBone Black, a few Arduinos on the way and lots of sensors.

There are a lot of interesting small projets you can do with small electronics.

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