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Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by yogeshp »

hekillno wrote: post #72
dsiegel2275 wrote: post #23

Machine Learning. In 2018 I went from "zero to sixty", so to speak. At the beginning of the year I knew nothing about ML, and my math skills had gotten so rusty I couldn't even remember how to do simple derivatives or multiply two matrices. In the first half of 2018 I relearned the college math that I had forgotten by working through MIT OCW's Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Probability courses. In the Fall, I enrolled…

can non-CMU student learn that class online?

Prof Tom Mitchell's video lectures for 10-601 are available online: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ninamf/courses/601sp15/lectures.shtml

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by rwallace »

dominotw wrote: post #67
rwallace wrote: post #9

Java 11, which has come a very long way from the verbose, clunky language of two decades ago; particularly combined with a top-notch IDE like Intellij IDEA, the current version of the language is a joy to program in.

whats a good resource to get upto date with diff between 11 and 8

A Google search for 'what's new in Java ...' provides some good summaries.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by philonoist »

hashhar wrote: post #218

I started my job last year in July as a search engineer in a major Indian e-commerce company straight out of college and was really glad to be able to work using one of the most beautiful tech stacks I've seen - Golang microservices talking to Apache Solr, Redis and a little bit of MySQL/Mongo connected to the external world through RabbitMQ. I learnt writing good abstractions, organising code, the value of commentin…

What do you suggest me learning( technologies, projects and skills for a better resume) having come from non-CS background to work in similar posts in companies such as you apart from being proficient in data structures and algorithms?

Ofcourse, The context of this question is cutting edge side of Indian markets.

I am taking notes from this thread. :)

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by em-bee »

scroot wrote: post #488
em-bee wrote: post #478

while i have learned smalltalk already a few years ago, it was only a short time ago that i found a smalltalk application that is so useful that it's worth it to keep a pharo smalltalk environment running at all times. as a result i became easy to use that to build a small gui app to help me solve some issues. the key takeaway is this: i have wanted to learn more about smalltalk ever since i started learning it, and…

An operating system should be more like this

you are right! i didn't even think of that. i mean, i have been curious about lisp-machines and even smalltalk runnig directly on the machine, but i didn't look at my current setup in this way until you mentioned it.

in fact, my home office is set up with dual monitors with gnome so that one monitor scrolls through gnome workspaces and the other is static with pharo maximized.

then a few days ago i discovered a package that offers multiple desktops within pharo, so now i got a multi-desktop gnome on one screen and a multidesktop pharo on the other, and it feels like having two computers with a shared keyboard and mouse.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by mrsln »

dsiegel2275 wrote: post #23

Machine Learning. In 2018 I went from "zero to sixty", so to speak. At the beginning of the year I knew nothing about ML, and my math skills had gotten so rusty I couldn't even remember how to do simple derivatives or multiply two matrices. In the first half of 2018 I relearned the college math that I had forgotten by working through MIT OCW's Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Probability courses. In the Fall, I enrolled…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18741229 - what do you think about this? Is it really pointless to learn ML unless you're going to work in a big company that have access to a lot of data?
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