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Piano. I've decided that more programming languages or web stacks are a complete waste of time. Piano is for life and I wished I had started doing this in earnest long ago.
Same, but classical guitar. Less tech in my life please, thanks.
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Do you worry at all about taking kicks to the head or it damaging your body long term?
This is really a problem in the professional world, and at a lesser extent in some high-end amateur setups, mainly when some competitors want to become pros or if there is some animosity between gyms/people. They cut weight, have good technique and power, and the stakes sometimes are very high. This is dangerous. Cutting weight reduces the amount of water in the body => the brain bounces on the skull at a greater spe…
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This is really a problem in the professional world, and at a lesser extent in some high-end amateur setups, mainly when some competitors want to become pros or if there is some animosity between gyms/people. They cut weight, have good technique and power, and the stakes sometimes are very high. This is dangerous. Cutting weight reduces the amount of water in the body => the brain bounces on the skull at a greater spe…
This is a really fascinating perspective, and contains info that I hadn't come across previously. Thanks for sharing; I'm excited to read a bit more about these points.
About dehydration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_distance_(boxing)#Distance...
I am looking for ways to improve communication (and hence also negotiations). Far too many times I have been too very direct - I really envy typical HR's soft-spoken language, even if it is to deliver something horrific. I don't know if this is just how I am build mentally or not. The only way to find is to learn and try to adapt. So, not sure if this fits the question - spent a lot of time learning new tech, focusin…
I've been working on this, too (admittedly... for years)! I similarly have a 'very direct' style of communication. I've received formal feedback on more than one occasion calling me 'abrasive'. fwiw, two books helped me massively in this area: 1. The Field Guide to Human Error. This book I read on a whim just because I thought it would be useful for software development. The first few chapter's ended up being kind of…
I am looking for ways to improve communication (and hence also negotiations). Far too many times I have been too very direct - I really envy typical HR's soft-spoken language, even if it is to deliver something horrific. I don't know if this is just how I am build mentally or not. The only way to find is to learn and try to adapt. So, not sure if this fits the question - spent a lot of time learning new tech, focusin…
You might want to checkout out NVC: https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/2019/03/06/want-to-impr... I found it through HN and for me, personally, it has helped.
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Why do you think HN doesn't value people like you? This whole thread is about learning things, and it seems like you do that quite a bit.
Yesterday I wrote a simplified outline of the orthodox economic account of the factors of production, how they relate to the historical process of industrialization, and how these relate to market incentives and cross-border capital flows, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639177 . The post is downvoted to -4 and has no responses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27502867 , where I explained some basic er…
From your comments you seem like a very learned individual, possibly with much education, who comments about many different subjects and has much knowledge accumulated in each. Some people may find this off-putting, perhaps even being a bit jealous, because of the breadth of your interests and knowledge.
You have a very extensive vocabulary and your writing style is very organized. You use section dividers: — ⁂ — which, while appreciated to keep things easy to read, might come off as pretentious and trying to show off.
Some comments may come off as racist or biased, while all you're trying to do is engage in discussion and present a different viewpoint.
There is so much to learn in the world, that there is no need to dumb things down for others, no need to fall in line with what the thought-du-jour is on a subject, and no need to be ashamed for wanting to better ourselves in both knowledge and understanding. I feel this way, and I hope you do too.
I personally believe that another community is needed to get to the level of discussion you're after. I would go to that site. But I hope you don't become discouraged and stop posting here. Because even if people don't engage with your comments, or perhaps down-vote you because they feel threatened or put off by what I mentioned above, there are those (like myself) that read things and learn from them. We may not comment much, but we're out there.
As a web developer, I'm often ashamed to admit that I knew very little about AI. Especially because I worked on a AI product on my day to day. I was perfectly fine debugging our python code and updating spacy, but had no clue what it was doing internally. So 6 months ago, I quit my job, published a short book, then studied AI. It's funny how so many material makes the vast assumption that you already know so much. Th…
> I got my Deep Learning Specialization certificate What is this? Will it help you get a job?
Some specialization courses offer a certificate on Coursera. I don't know that it is recognized by institutions, but I believe completing an Andrew Ng class, with the addition of building a project with this new knowledge can be helpful.
By the way I'm in the process of interviewing with FAANG, so let's see how much it will matter :)