As a software engineer. To boost your career in this era.
Ask HN: If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn?
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#2Sailing
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#3As a means of stopping myself from walking out on a one year contract to work for a terrible IT telecoms company I learned to fly. But that's probably not exactly what you meant.
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#4A hundred hours won't be sufficient, but I really need to learn a new language in order to secure a better citizenship. With it, my job finding prospects will significantly improve. Being an immigrant sucks, future security isn't as sure.
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#5AI, LLM basics. A hundred hours won't even scratch the surface of recent advanced, but I’d like to understand how LLMs work and the main approaches (diffusion, RLHF), their pros and cons.
Theory of relativity. I’ve never quite been able to wrap my head around it. Given some free time, I would really want to understand how two simple postulates can lead to such far-reaching conclusions.
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#6I want to learn how to dance bachata or salsa.
Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn?
#7AI, LLM basics. A hundred hours won't even scratch the surface of recent advanced, but I’d like to understand how LLMs work and the main approaches (diffusion, RLHF), their pros and cons. Theory of relativity. I’ve never quite been able to wrap my head around it. Given some free time, I would really want to understand how two simple postulates can lead to such far-reaching conclusions.
There is a very good intro on how LLM work by Kharpaty. It's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI and it's 3.30 hours, so way below the 100 hours mark :)
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#8I want to learn how to dance bachata or salsa.
How will this help your software engineering career?
Re: Ask HN: If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn?
#9To boost my career I think a deep dive into design patterns / CS algorithms. Could be good for many self taught natural programmers too.
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#10Blender, Godot and perhaps Rust. I wish I could do things which I enjoy, not just do things which I need to do to pay the bills.