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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

MikeTheGreat wrote: post #631
reallydontask wrote: post #547

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But sometimes they really get your nerves when they cry non-stop for half an hour. For no apparent reason ... sigh Are you using any resources that you'd care to share?

Develop a checklist of stuff to try: 1. Does the diaper need changing? 2. Does the baby want a diaper? 3. Does the baby want to be held? 4. Maybe some clothing is uncomfortable for it? 5. Does the baby need to be burped? 6. etc. Walk through the list until something works or until the baby + you pass out. If you spend 2-5 minutes on each item it'll take maybe 20-30 minutes to go through it. If it doesn't work the fir…

7. Is the baby hungry? 8. Is it too cold/too hot for the baby? 9. Does the baby have a rash in the diaper area? 10. Could the baby be teething (may start earlier than 6 months in)?

I agree, it's good to memorize or even write down these things. Over time, one learns to move quickly through that list, and which items are more likely at what time.

(RE 8. it's easy to worry so much about the baby having it warm that you end up overheating it.)

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by ojosilva »

Learning how to sing.

Our voices are a beautiful, natural instrument we carry everywhere with us, from the shower to lonely business trips to walks in the park. I've always had the desire to put it to work. Singing is also an ancient tradition of bringing melody and lyrics to people. For me it's not about singing like a soul or blues singer (ie Joe Cocker) but more like Chet Baker: get the notes right (pitch) and building them into elegant phrasing, which needs control of tempo and great diaphragm training. Music is undeniably great for your brain, which can include learning and memorizing a ton of lyrics, tempo and pitch. As an art also very appreciated by most people, who really feel grateful by a (good) vocal performance, sometimes more than by any other instrument. Hearing yourself improve and sing well gives a high dose of happiness and confidence builder.

It's also an excellent breathing and speaking exercise, which increases your ability to communicate effectively, projecting and modulating your voice effortlessly and making it easier to jump in into a conversation. Also gives your voice the stability to fend off your nerves or anxiety. For an introvert like me it's definitely a very effective tool, it makes me feel like "in the matrix" as far as speaking goes, as my brain thinks ahead of time or just in time, so my mind feels snappier. In other words, I feel like a more spontaneous person since I've started to sing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by kkleindev »

ojosilva wrote: post #652

Learning how to sing. Our voices are a beautiful, natural instrument we carry everywhere with us, from the shower to lonely business trips to walks in the park. I've always had the desire to put it to work. Singing is also an ancient tradition of bringing melody and lyrics to people. For me it's not about singing like a soul or blues singer (ie Joe Cocker) but more like Chet Baker: get the notes right (pitch) and bui…

Would you mind sharing how you 'learn'?

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by erikpl »

verandaguy wrote: post #465

Norwegian! Originally, I was going to do a hiking and photography tour of Fennoscandia in the Fall. I'm not sure if that'll still come to pass with the ever-looming collapse of society, but at least it's pretty refreshing to learn a new (non-programming) language for the first time in over a decade, and for the first time in my adult life.

I am a native Norwegian speaker! How is it going so far?

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by DeathArrow »

shitoujizu wrote: post #396
returningfory wrote: post #361

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100% percent my experience too. In the last 3 months I've been on-site at 3 of the FAANG companies. Not a single interviewer brought up the large personal projects I've done and which are given decent space on my resume; my weeks of leetcoding was definitely far far far more beneficial for getting a job.

sometimes feels very sad about this since one's value should be reflected by the awesome projects he has done. I think it's just laziness of the FAANG companies. If the interviewer is well prepared and keeps digging the resume, then he should know the candidate is good or not. But by leetcoding, it's simpler for them, just keep asking the repeated questions.

I think that if your hobby projects will be important for many people: i.e. you develop something with the importance npm, or Ruby on Rails, or Vue.js, FAANG companies will make you offers without asking you leetcode kind of questions.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by fluroblue »

kkleindev wrote: post #653
ojosilva wrote: post #652

Learning how to sing. Our voices are a beautiful, natural instrument we carry everywhere with us, from the shower to lonely business trips to walks in the park. I've always had the desire to put it to work. Singing is also an ancient tradition of bringing melody and lyrics to people. For me it's not about singing like a soul or blues singer (ie Joe Cocker) but more like Chet Baker: get the notes right (pitch) and bui…

Would you mind sharing how you 'learn'?

Not op though I’ve been doing it for a while now. A crap ton of scales and exercises. Lots of work to develop the many muscles in that area as well as teaching them how to coordinate together.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #637
troxwalt wrote: post #447

How to take care of a toddler from 5 AM - 8 PM while trying to manage work and phone calls. Then how to not fall asleep while I"m working on projects until 1 AM. So learning how to function on 4-6 hours of sleep.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't do everything.

In similar situation like the GP (infant, a full time job + few other part-time commitments); learning how to accept that I have less hours in the day than I need.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by gyvastis »

I have been fascinated by Machine Learning for a while now but never got around to it until recently. I have landed on Kaggle almost by accident and started doing the courses. Loving it! Give it a go. They also have competitions on different datasets and leaderboards to make it more fun.

https://www.kaggle.com/learn/overview

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by spurgu »

IggleSniggle wrote: post #570
spurgu wrote: post #237

Morse 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

> v uses the motif from Beethovens Vth

Brilliant observation, this one will be impossible to forget now!

edit: And I'm glad you found it useful! I've always wanted to learn Morse but never found the time/inspiration before that little learning app, which made the dive in so easy!

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