I'm continuing to study graph theory and learning Lisp via Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (with the original 1986 lectures).
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#472Getting back into regular guitar practice (mostly classical). Also trying to broaden my musical horizons a bit: playing around with some virtual synths and my analog synth. I'm currently shopping for a hollow body or solid body electric guitar and amp, since I want to start getting into blues guitar. Hoping that I can meld some of the music production/synth stuff with guitar practice by laying down some backing synth…
Just ordered my first guitar and audio interface yesterday. Any tips for really starting from 0? I will be looking for some online courses, but there’s so much information online that it is hard for me to find out which is good for absolute beginners and which is not.
Jamplay has a lot of traditional video tutorials for all levels.
Yousician has some fun guitar hero-esque tutorials if you’d like more interactive feedback.
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I'm also learning Russian at the moment! I'm a native English speaker and am presently dealing with the current global events while cooped up in Siberia. What have you found difficult? What resources are you using? For me, I tried memorizing the rules for cases, but it was a complete waste of time: it was trivia disconnected from any usage of the language. What is (slowly) working for me is focusing on a single phras…
Oh wow, stay safe! Thank you for sharing your experiences and the YouTube channel recommendation. I've been alternating between the interactive lessons on http://learnrussian.rt.com/ and "The New Penguin Russian Course". I've been enjoying the former a lot more because there's audio to accompany written content, which helps when I try to enunciate words. There are also tests, which helps me measure retention. The lat…
Cool! There's an easy tip for "o": If it's in the dictionary as о́ then it's the stressed syllable and you say the "o", otherwise it's "a". Example word: о́вощи, the first "o" is stressed. You should include the accent mark on any flashcards you make, since it can literally change the word you are saying (сто́ит, стои́т).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/овощи https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/стоит
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#474Trying to better grok the potential to use audio (focusing on creative expression) as a medium to navigate smartphone apps and digital properties in general.
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#475I'm continuing to study graph theory and learning Lisp via Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (with the original 1986 lectures).
Lots of joy ahead! Love those lectures.
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#476Cantonese - it is an incredibly rich language with tons of regional differences, slang, and history spanning thousands of years, way more rich than modern Mandarin. The fact that it has fewer resources online to learn it has made me more resourceful at finding good books, academic grammar articles, and has gotten me deep into HK pop culture. I'm a native romance language speaker and Cantonese is so fundamentally different in its structure than my language it is a joy to learn. Unfortunately, the CCP is constantly cracking down on the language, with a very political campaign to dismiss it as a "dialect" despite it being mutually unintelligible with Mandarin and having its own independent history.
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#477Unity has made all of their premium ed content free for a few months, so trying to absorb as much of it as I can!
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#478I'm a informatics student and am currently studying online.
My focus is on embedded programming and I am currently working on a side-job, where I program an embedded device that is going to act as a wildlife deterrent to protect deer from ending up in wheat fields that are about to be harvested.
I have many hobby projects next to that and can never finish any of those, but they are also only motivated by 'oh that might a cool thing'. I have not yet found a side project which solves a problem big enough to motivate me to actually finish it.
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#480I'm studying DS and Algorithms, I am a self taught developer and I'm trying to fill some gaps in my general CS knowledge. There's a project I want to work on but I feel a bit overwhelmed and don't know where I should start, I'd appreciate some advice here. I want to create shogi(Japanese chess) server, similar to lichess, the thing is that I've never done anything similar to this, I've been reading about web sockets,…
Elixir / Phoenix is indeed very good in handling websockets.
Probably that's the easy part in your project.