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Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by qubyte »

foota wrote: post #95

I'd like to learn Japanese. I'm hoping to travel there in June after I graduate from college, and I figure it would help if I could talk to people (or try, at least). I'd also like to get better at Rust. I've written a few small projects in it at hackathons, but I've yet to get to the point where I'm comfortable writing in it. I'd like to get close to that. I'm taking a class prior to graduation in abstract algebra,…

wrt Japanese, get comfortable with the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs. Verbs in English are often both (ambitransitive) and that makes you (or maybe it's just me) unaware of the difference. It took me more time than I care to specify to sort that out in my head!

And be confident! Japanese people are generally supportive and will appreciate your effort to use the language, no matter how successful it is.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by gcav »

snowcrshd wrote: post #418

Here are my goals for 2017: - 10 seconds Free-standing Handstand: Practice 6-7 days a week, for twenty minutes, following the GMB Handstand progressions. - 10 seconds advanced tuck back-lever on the gymnastics rings: Practice 3-4x week, following FitnessFAQs progressions. - Bulgarian split squats, 4x12 50kg: I'll go with a somewhat linear progression -- work from 3x8 up to 4x12. When I do 3 workouts using 4x12, I'll…

I think learning the handstand is a great idea. For me, handstands helped relieve a ton of shoulder pain I had from football + too many bench/bicep workouts. It also just looks super cool to boot and you can do them anywhere. Best of luck

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by NumberCruncher »

New people who share my interests. In 2016 I started dancing again (I had a break of 4 years and forgot almost everything) because a buddy of mine needed company at the salsa course. I started bouldering in spite of my back problems because a college of mine needed company in the boulder-hall next to our office. Now I want to trade my drinking / women obsessed buddies for folks intrested in web dev side projects. It is quite lonely if you can not talk about your hobbies.

On the other hand I want to learn urban sketching.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by sn9 »

wonder_er wrote: post #388
foota wrote: post #95

I'd like to learn Japanese. I'm hoping to travel there in June after I graduate from college, and I figure it would help if I could talk to people (or try, at least). I'd also like to get better at Rust. I've written a few small projects in it at hackathons, but I've yet to get to the point where I'm comfortable writing in it. I'd like to get close to that. I'm taking a class prior to graduation in abstract algebra,…

this guy has helped ME in so many of my language learning ventures. And he's relentlessly optimistic and encouraging. http://www.fluentin3months.com/ He's learned Japanese (and like ten other languages), but his main value-add is general language learning advice.

Fluent Forever [0] and its corresponding book is also a great resource. Tons of overlap with Benny's stuff with the main addition of an upfront study of the phonetics of a language to get that barrier to learning out of the way.

[0] https://fluent-forever.com/

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by mmargerum »

Learn clojure. The time feels right for functional programming with react and datomic. Been doing imperative and OO for 25 years. I've never gotten around to learning a lispish language. I find rich hickeys talks very inspiring. Smart people have a way of making complex things seem simple.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by solipsism »

vayarajesh wrote: post #308
solipsism wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He wants to get into the practical application of machine learning, not machine learning theory. This is a common mistake people new to the field make. You can be very successful by learning how to use machine learning frameworks, and that doesn't require lots of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and optimization. Not that it hurts. vayarajesh, start using Tensorflow, you'll reach the ability to reason abo…

@solipsism, I did try out the TensorFlow playground and they use lot of mathematical terms which I don't understand yet. Al though I like the idea of diving in and then learning the concepts which I come across to accomplish NLP or Facial Recognition. Thanks.

Mathematical terms like what? Perhaps they could just be explained to you. Starting at the root and working your way up is a long, long path. And unnecessary if your interest is primarily in applying ML.

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Post by jakobegger »

superplussed wrote: post #357
d7z wrote: post #293

Confidence - never thought it would be an issue when you're leading your own company. I quit a great job on the east coast in 2012, went to grad school and moved to Silicon Valley after graduation (2014) to work on my startup. I've been learning and building constantly for the past 4 years. I would rather my work speak for me, so I don't draw any attention to what I'm doing or to myself until I have great results to…

I'm in a similar position. We should create a group for the subset of solo founders who are inclined toward product and not sales. It is a tough position to be in for sure (though I imagine the inverse has its own problems).

I'm a solo founder (of a slow growing 'lifestyle' business, not a fast growing startup) who is inclined towards product. The trick is to build a product that requires minimal sales effort.

My app costs 40€, and is geared towards individual users. You don't need a sales team to sell a 40€ app -- just a few emails to announce your product on the right mailing list, and a few cold emails to key influencers.

And a lot of patience, because unless you are very lucky, noone will buy version 1.0.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Post by joe563323 »

Calculus, Statics, Machine learning, Economics courses in coursera. Being more helpful to colleagues. More exercise. Less browsing. Less junk food. More water. Mastery over profiling tools. Understanding how floating points work. Working out the floating point exercises to make sure i had understood. Learn to form sentences without using "I".
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