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Ask HN: What are you learning?
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#562Learning the bond market, figuring out the different characteristics of all the different types of bonds, what the risks are, what the potential for gain is. I trade options on equities regularly and recently a friend has been looking for help on figuring out how to handle a large amount of money they came into, so I figured brushing up on bond investing would be helpful since their risk tolerance is substantially lo…
What resource are you using for bonds and what did you use for learning options? I've become interested in stocks/trading recently and have been wanting to understand it well enough before losing all my money. I started Financial Markets [0]. Just finished Week 1 and it seems a little too broad/dry so far. Any recommendations are welcome. [0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-global
I taught myself by reading a lot of articles online, basically. I start by googling something basic and clicking the first 4-6 results and reading them, opening a lot of extra tabs for things they link to as I go. If anything is unclear, I repeat the process, googling the unclear thing. I take notes as I go.
Slowly a general understanding emerges and then I can flesh it out by seeking specific details once I know what I don't know. And by reading and comparing multiple resources I get a very full and objective understanding.
Investopedia has been the single most helpful site by a wide margin. Their content is top notch.
When I hit on something I can't find the answer to, I ask the customer service at my brokerage (Etrade) and they're very helpful. But if it's a very specific question, I've found I'm best off asking to speak to their customer service team for that specific thing, like their bond desk or futures desk, etc.
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#563Trying to figure out how to teach myself EE. It looks like theres basically two suggestions: A) Following the same sort of curriculum a university would teach. I'd have to manage to dredge through the math, but I suppose it's possible but would lead to probably the most competence. Unfortunately however, I was hoping for the big MOOC sites to have more content. EdX has some decent introductory stuff but not much beyo…
What kind of "grand" circuits are we talking about here? As someone who entered EE through the hobbyist approach, there isn't much I'm interested in that has me wishing I had formal EE education background. Do you want to do analog? Because there's hardly any math involved in practical applications of digital electronics.
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#564I am learning Data Structure and Algorithm and I have also started a book club with a friend where we would be reading at least one chapter of a book every week.
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#565I'm learning Flutter and Golang, hope to use it soon in a real life scenario; but I don't have any projects to use it in yet.
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#566I'm trying to learn advanced Mandarin (while not living in PRC/Taiwan). I've bought some business Mandarin books whose content I wouldn't have sought out: international trade, shipping, etc.; I come from a tech background. Surprisingly, logistics (and the Mandarin around it) is interesting! Going through some of the "Incoterms" now. It's fun to learn something new and a language at the same time.
What are some of the resources you used to get to your current competency? I took classes back in college so I have _some_ understanding, but I'd love to get to a conversational proficiency.
Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?
#567Trying to figure out how to teach myself EE. It looks like theres basically two suggestions: A) Following the same sort of curriculum a university would teach. I'd have to manage to dredge through the math, but I suppose it's possible but would lead to probably the most competence. Unfortunately however, I was hoping for the big MOOC sites to have more content. EdX has some decent introductory stuff but not much beyo…
I'm currently working my way though a three part series of electronics classes offered by GeorgiaTech's EE department on Coursera. Search for "Bonnie Ferri". The recommended order is Linear Circuits 1 & 2, then Intro to Electronics.
Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?
#568Trying to figure out how to teach myself EE. It looks like theres basically two suggestions: A) Following the same sort of curriculum a university would teach. I'd have to manage to dredge through the math, but I suppose it's possible but would lead to probably the most competence. Unfortunately however, I was hoping for the big MOOC sites to have more content. EdX has some decent introductory stuff but not much beyo…
What kind of "grand" circuits are we talking about here? As someone who entered EE through the hobbyist approach, there isn't much I'm interested in that has me wishing I had formal EE education background. Do you want to do analog? Because there's hardly any math involved in practical applications of digital electronics.
The last 2 ideas I had were a ISA SATA card (dont ask) and attempting to build a DOCSIS modem (because issues with my shitty ISP supplied one intrigued me).
I actually tried to build a Arduino based EPROM reader for a chip I extracted from an old electronic device, but ran into some issues and am kinda discouraged because that seems like it was pretty basic.
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#569Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you any thoughts on medikanren? I think they are generally _thinking_ as you do but in the short term that project is more about searching medical knowledge bases as opposed to logical programming of/with genes.
I can't find that much information about it online, but it looks great from a outside perspective! Wish they had a paper or something.
Me too. We'll write one soon. Right now we are hacking on mediKanren to do drug re-purposing for COVID-19.
I also work on miniKanren and am very interested in synthentic biology. We should talk! Please email me.
--Will
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#570Morse code. Started today by learning the alphabet in half an hour using a Google creative project[0] and quickly realized the challenge will be thinking in the sound/rhythm of the letters (instantly hearing/deciphering them) so I found a video[1] and then watched another video[1] which confirmed my hunch that it's better to focus on the sound than the notation. Now I have GBoard w/ morse as my default keyboard on th…
omg. This was AWESOME! Thank you for sharing this. I just finished that tutorial and it was great. Very well done- Never done Morse before and 1.5 hrs later Im writing this comment (including punctuation...very slowly...but musically) via morse!
I think my favorite moments were learning that v uses the motif from Beethovens Vth and `!` = Candy+mustache