I just built my first mechanical keyboard which I wanted to do for years but never jumped shipped - The soldering scared me. It was easier and more fun than expected! I also just bought a house and am looking into putting drywall in the garage.
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#332Building a guitar! It's my first attempt at building an instrument. It's going well so far, mostly using threads from TDPRI as guidance and a body template from there as well. I opted to buy a neck from Warmoth since building a neck seemed especially intimidating and requires more special tools. Today I finished soldering the electronics, bolted the neck on, strung it up and it actually works! Now to take it apart an…
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#333I'm working through Aluffi's Algebra: Chapter Zero , which covers abstract algebra (groups, fields, vector spaces, etc.) with category theoretic foundations. I took undergraduate algebra several years ago, and I'm really interested in category theory from a compositionality perspective, so this is a good opportunity to brush up on both topics. Aluffi is really well-written. It assumes some degree of mathematical matu…
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Oooh! Downvotes instead of answers. That is extremely helpful, thanks. So all the posts here about this BS are shills working for some marketing company pushing their shit. It's not anything real since today is the first time it's been mentioned here. Typical marketing Yale imbecile tactic is use robot army downvotes to make people who ask WTF is this seem like they are out of the loop. Reality is LeetCode is absolut…
You're receiving downvotes instead of an answer because you're coming off as a smug prick.
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have any pictures available (especially of this bridge) I'd be curious to see. Are you tilling? Doing raised beds? We're planting a bit this year and dealing with weeds, etc. has been a hassle (also, most of the no-dig crowd seem to basically advocate using many tons of compost, which is great but not something you can assume a steady supply of)
There are lots of photos in this thread for the stone: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1234186085200207872?s... We're making semi raised beds up the hill: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1246544902193909769?s... With house compost and composted manure from a local farmer. The lower garden is mostly no till with added compost. We're not really sure what we're doing! So I can't really give advice. I usual…
I used to run and bike past so many houses that look like this, and some part of me always wanted to do what you're doing. So thank you for sharing your journey!
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#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oooh! Downvotes instead of answers. That is extremely helpful, thanks. So all the posts here about this BS are shills working for some marketing company pushing their shit. It's not anything real since today is the first time it's been mentioned here. Typical marketing Yale imbecile tactic is use robot army downvotes to make people who ask WTF is this seem like they are out of the loop. Reality is LeetCode is absolut…
Your comment will likely get killed so let me throw you a life-line 1. It's likely you're getting downvotes because it's an easily google-able question: https://leetcode.com/ 2. " It's not anything real since today is the first time it's been mentioned here". easily proven to be untrue: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=site%3A... 3. You immediately responded to the downvotes with anger and insults…
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#337I'm working through Aluffi's Algebra: Chapter Zero , which covers abstract algebra (groups, fields, vector spaces, etc.) with category theoretic foundations. I took undergraduate algebra several years ago, and I'm really interested in category theory from a compositionality perspective, so this is a good opportunity to brush up on both topics. Aluffi is really well-written. It assumes some degree of mathematical matu…
This really reminds me, it's been two decades now since I've taken _any_ Algebra. I'd really love to go re-learn it from the basics on up. I mean, I still remember a lot of it here and there but some sort of refresher course up to doing more advanced would be awesome. Any recommendations?
Sheldon Axler's acclaimed "Linear Algebra Done Right" is freely available as a download [1] through July due to the pandemic. I've not read it (yet!), but I've heard so many good things about it I feel comfortable recommending it off the cuff. :)
(Recommendation: try not to focus too hard on the matrices! They're just convenient representations (syntax!) for the actual things we care about: linear transformations. It's less geometrically intuitive, but it lays a much better foundation for algebraic widgets other than vector spaces. Use the wealth of geometric intuitions to jump-start your mathematical sense.)
I don't have a lot of recommendations for other algebra topics, unfortunately. My class textbook for abstract algebra was Dummit & Foote, which I found very dry and lacking in intuition. Aluffi is perfectly servicable if you feel good about your linear algebra; just don't feel like you have to complete every exercise.
Also, I'm a sucker for order theory, so if you're up for something a little less algebraic, pick up Munkres' Topology. I'm consistently surprised at how often topological and order-theoretic intuitions come up in software development. There's a close connection between topology and logic, so perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised -- but I haven't studied Stone duality at all, so it shall remain surprising for now.
[1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-11080-6
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#338I feel comfortable enough with my technical skills where I feel like I can pick up a new language or framework with relative ease, so I want to switch gears and improve my drawing and visual communication skills. I believe that any project can benefit from a compelling visual component.
For now, I've been trying to start slow and just have fun; for example, telling myself to do three quick sketches of my dog every day and keep up a habit. Eventually I'd like to follow some more structured exercises and resources, like https://drawabox.com/.
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#339Prolog. I think that genetic logic can largely be expressed in Prolog to enable doing some crazy stuff that hasn’t been explored yet. It’s crazy to me that synthetic biology hasn’t really used logical programming yet for gene design.
I’m fascinated by what this might look like. Have you written anything on this concept?
I've written something for the biotech crowd (to get DNA synthesis from FreeGenes), so it uses some odd vernacular and definitely isn't perfect for tech crowd - no actual code implementing it yet, but has some useful historical context of how this lands in with everything else.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1odf8q7ir9NsS0zPvArEg0j0W...
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#340I've also spent a bit of time watching youtube videos on a channel called "RÜNGE CARS". This guy hand forms aluminum bodies and builds his own chassis and they're pretty cool cars he making. The craftsmanship is impressive and so is the process. He pretty much takes you through it step by step. I still have quite a few of those to take in.
Aside from that CouchDB 3.0 was release just a couple weeks ago so I'm learning about what's new and how it applies to my work. They're doing some impressive work on that.