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Some other things that I'm excited to learn is how community is created, managed, and sustained in this type of medium.
It's a creative challenge that has been really hard in the past few weeks, but, I've already learned a ton.
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Assuming you know the basics of calculus: learn lots of linear algebra, lots of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and optimization. But you don't have to wait to learn all the math to get going
I am just starting with Calculus. Currently I am only comfortable with linear algebra - rest all I am just starting to learn. Do you recommend any good books or resources?
I want to learn how to even start a side-project. I've been out of university since 2012 and have done basically nothing in my free time CS-related. Every time I start to even think about doing something, that "why are you working while on your free time" feeling comes up and I immediately do something else. Not sure if it means I really don't love programming and Computer Science after all (entirely possible) or if…
I think the trick is to find something you're truly excited about. It's not work if you're enjoying the thing you're doing. Perhaps the problem is you're wanting a side-project for the wrong reasons.
How to effectively market my consulting skills. I've been a web developer for over a decade now and I'm still not confident in my ability to bring in consistent work. The work comes, but I'd like to have more potential clients knocking. From what I can tell, the best way to achieve that is by consistently offering to help others with my skills. So I'm making it a point in the coming year to make blogging a part of my…
1. If you're going to blog (which I think is a good idea) make sure you have an opinion that is strongly held and/or differs from conventional opinion. If you only write vanilla stuff, you'll only attract vanilla prospects, which usually end up being a poor fit or boring to work with/for.
2. Take every opportunity to teach what you know. This can be through blogging, commenting on other blog/forums, podcasting, screen recordings...whatever it takes to teach something for free. This establishes you as an expert, provides no-risk value to prospects and has no barrier to entry, so it's a great first step to building a relationship with possible customers.
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1 thing that helps a lot is immersion. I couldn't justify learning a language till I lived in the country where it was spoken. I am doing this in japan now (moved here recently)
I lived in a country town where my wife was the only person I knew who spoke English. She got sick of talking to me pretty quickly. Total immersion.
Growth hacking. I'd like to learn how to sell a SaaS product[1] to businesses. I'd also like to explore content strategy and marketing. As a software developer joining a new 2-person startup, this is uncharted territory for me. Looking forward to the experience. [1] https://www.metriculator.com
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I learned AngularJS in 2016. Everyone wants to hire a React developer. I don't know if functionally one is better than the other however the small devs shops what React developers. Otherwise, people are looking for web developers strong with Rails, Django, React ecosystem, JavaScript on server, Postgres, and Redis.
Great, React, Postgres, Redis, I got it, thanks for your sharing!
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Assuming you know the basics of calculus: learn lots of linear algebra, lots of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and optimization. But you don't have to wait to learn all the math to get going
He wants to get into the practical application of machine learning, not machine learning theory. This is a common mistake people new to the field make. You can be very successful by learning how to use machine learning frameworks, and that doesn't require lots of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and optimization. Not that it hurts. vayarajesh, start using Tensorflow, you'll reach the ability to reason abo…
Starting by learning the maths will mean you learn a lot of stuff which isn't directly relevant. Not the worst thing that could happen, but you'll be a hell of a lot more directed (even if you want to learn the theory - and I would recommend learning at least some) if you pick a decent ML course and learn the maths you bump into as you go.
http://cs231n.github.io/ is one of the best general hands-on introductions I've found. The TF tutorials are pretty good too if you just want to try some things out, but I predict that once you've worked your way through the TF tuts you'll still not really understand what's going on and will feel a bit like you just learned the magic words that made the black box dance some particular dances.
As for notation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols is really good for when you stumble on something unfamiliar.
Good luck.