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Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by david_w »

shivekkhurana wrote: post #464

I have lost my contract as a developer and am helping a non-profit [1] streamline their operations. The organization aims to provide food and heath kits to the marginalized. We have already distributed over 600 kits and are on track to reach a 1000 in this week. Each kit is designed to support a family of 4 for 1 month. I was introduced to them by a friend who was helping them build an open platform [2], open in the…

Each kit is designed to support a family of 4 for 1 month.

That's some freaking "kit" !!!

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by tclancy »

michaelbrave wrote: post #716
yoshyosh wrote: post #694

I'm learning how to make tacos starting with the tortilla. I'm originally from San Diego and have always missed Mexican food whenever I moved abroad. On a recent trip back to San Diego, I went to over a dozen Mexican shops to find particular flours to create tortillas from. I also went to Mexico twice just to find a specific brand of soft wheat flour. In total I think I experimented with atleast 5-6 different flours…

I've seen a lot of custom made hotplate/pans made by a lot of my hispanic friends families for making tortillas, it's basically a slab of metal on a stove with a handle. I don't know anywhere that makes them since all of them are a kind of "I had a friend weld it for me" situation, but I found that those hotplates made making tortillas much easier.

You mean a comal? I got one I love off Amazon a couple years ago for about $10. It's handy for all sorts of things because it heats faster than a large cast-iron skillet with sides. It's great for reheating pizza and melting sandwiches (couple it with a metal cover for doing just that for a double bonus).

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by manoj_venkat92 »

shivekkhurana wrote: post #607
niyazpk wrote: post #599

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>> For just ₹750, our food and wellness kit can feed a family for a whole month. 750 INR = 9.84 USD It would be nice if you can make it easy to provide donations from outside India.

We are working on that!

Nice work. I'm a indian dev. Let me know if there's any work for me to do.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by billfruit »

mikro wrote: post #175

I am learning game development in Godot, specifically with the intention of making an Oculus Quest VR game. I just finished the initial tutorial yesterday: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.2/getting_started/step_by_... Alongside that, I am also watching Disney's Imagineering-in-a-Box, which describes how they develop lands and rides for their theme parks: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2020/03/enjoy-a-one-o.…

I am trying my hand at Defold. Though initially I found it very obscure and opaque, I am finally able to do small things on my own without constantly refering to the document.

Initially I found it difficult to grasp what exactly the game engine is making easy for you. Now I understand, the whole reactive message passing system simplifies game logic. Also the collision physics and handling too makes game logic simpler. And it takes care of animations like sliding, moving etc.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by koeng »

codekilla wrote: post #587
Twisol wrote: post #280

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Logic programming is badly underapplied in general, I think. Most of the amazing work in this area never seems to have gotten far out of academia (if at all) -- Prolog being the almost singular exception. Would be awesome to see some motivating examples for this application. It sounds really cool!

Yeah, checkout Maude--really woefully underutilized. Some fascinating things around pathway logic that are applied to biology: http://pl.csl.sri.com

That's amazing! I've never found that site before but I'm going to read some of their papers. Thank you for linking

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by koeng »

will_byrd wrote: post #569
koeng wrote: post #382

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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

Will do Will! Small world.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by koeng »

thijsvandien wrote: post #520
koeng wrote: post #80

Prolog. I think that genetic logic can largely be expressed in Prolog to enable doing some crazy stuff that hasn’t been explored yet. It’s crazy to me that synthetic biology hasn’t really used logical programming yet for gene design.

As a great opportunity to learn, volunteers behind SWI-Prolog will very soon organize another round of the online class they did back in 2018: https://twitter.com/SWI_Prolog/status/1246440776470536192

Thanks! Signed up.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

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Post by koeng »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #453
koeng wrote: post #80

Prolog. I think that genetic logic can largely be expressed in Prolog to enable doing some crazy stuff that hasn’t been explored yet. It’s crazy to me that synthetic biology hasn’t really used logical programming yet for gene design.

Cool. This subject is on my list and will probably approach it through Clojure's Core.Logic (a logic library inspired by both prolog and miniKanren) [1] 1: https://github.com/clojure/core.logic

I've heard Datomic was made by Clojure people and is really good software too, though unfortunately proprietary.

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Post by david_w »

liziwizi wrote: post #628
w4tson wrote: post #548

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It’s been both great and terrible to be cooked up in a small flat with my wife and child. I’m always happy to see comments like this. I wonder if there’s a community for the M(o|u|a)ms/Dads of HN Any tips for communications with partners?

most important is to come from a place of respect and to talk about the issue, not about the person. it should be about solving the problem together. never about pointing blame. when i was still stuck in relationships that didn't work, most discussions were always about "who did (or did not do) what and why that was terrible". these days we talk about what problems we face, what we tried, how they didn't work and ask…

"we talk more about the good stuff than about the bad stuff,"

20:1 minimum good to bad. Minimum. Even one "bad" a week may just be too much.

Also, limit the relative number of times you approach with something that "needs doing". You can't let your relationship turn into mere help-mate-ism.

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