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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by poglet »

haihaibye wrote: post #18
kabdib wrote: post #9

How to play guitar. I'm in my 60s, but it's never too late to learn how to shred or shoe-gaze. Similarly, 30+ years ago I learned how to ride a motorcycle, and rode for 30 years without crashing. It was great having a hobby that had absolutely nothing to do with computers. I recently sold the bikes and gear, it's just too risky at my age.

Piano. 43 now, played maybe 2 years in primary school. My partner got a good quality electric one with headphones. This led me to start as I could practice at night while the kids slept, and not be embarrassed sucking and/or driving people insane doing exercises/ scales

Can you talk about how you are going about learning the piano? Ie. What study materials and how much practice you do? Piano is something I would love to learn too.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by derwiki »

kabdib wrote: post #9

How to play guitar. I'm in my 60s, but it's never too late to learn how to shred or shoe-gaze. Similarly, 30+ years ago I learned how to ride a motorcycle, and rode for 30 years without crashing. It was great having a hobby that had absolutely nothing to do with computers. I recently sold the bikes and gear, it's just too risky at my age.

Also learning guitar! After 7 years of piano lessons, I am shocked how much different it feels to learn guitar

To sibling threads that ask about self-taught: I highly recommend group Zoom guitar lessons at the very least. Holds you accountable, you can ask questions, and you don’t have to chart your own study course.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by throwaway17_17 »

goldenshale wrote: post #26

- Quantum computing via https://quantum.country/ - Cooking via YouTube (Food Wishes w/ Chef John, and Kenji Lopez Alt's channel) - ML model architectures (AI Coffee Break, and Yannic Kilcher's channels) - Exploring different ways of thinking about and responses to the question: What is the meaning of life? (I don't think there is one, so it's more about how we derive one for ourselves.)

I know you didn’t ask for extra sources, but my son is trying to learn how to cook and I kind of fell in love with a YouTube creator. So, if you can stand a slightly Zoomer tone at times, Joshua Weissman has some of the best practical cooking education videos in approx 10-15 minute formats.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by ericol »

Arduino programming + motor control (Stepper robots, for robotics - toy, not industrial) cobbled with 3D printing.

I've always been fascinated with robotics, and the barrier to entry is getting lower by the second.

But I want to know all the details, so I'm going slow and steady at it (Like, instead of using libraries - at least when learning - I'm coding 100% of the stepper motor control routines).

I plan on making my own designs, and make my own versions of known ones: The first thing I want to try my hand at is either (my own version of) a PolarGraph or an AxiDraw.

Then I'll move to other things, also in the early stages of designing a chess playing (arm) robot.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by 29athrowaway »

ericol wrote: post #36

Arduino programming + motor control (Stepper robots, for robotics - toy, not industrial) cobbled with 3D printing. I've always been fascinated with robotics, and the barrier to entry is getting lower by the second. But I want to know all the details, so I'm going slow and steady at it (Like, instead of using libraries - at least when learning - I'm coding 100% of the stepper motor control routines). I plan on making…

Make sure you have proper ventilation and air filtering for that 3d printer.

https://3dinsider.com/3d-printer-fumes/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by cperciva »

Parenting. We have a very energetic 15 month old who has decided that 8 hours of sleep at night + a 1.5 hour nap is all she needs. Also, she has been teething pretty much non stop for 9 months.

Aside from that, I'm learning a lot about virtual machines by porting FreeBSD to run in the Firecracker VM.

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