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Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by b1ind »

robryan wrote: post #35
terryjsmith wrote: post #32

I would like to get my black belt in Taekwondo by the age of 30 (turning 23 in August) and fight at a Canadian national or Ontario provincial competition. I am currently a yellow belt (started about a year ago) but have won a gold and a silver at two recent invitational competitions. I had an excellent teacher in Thunder Bay, but just moved to Toronto a month ago to be in a more tech savvy town (I'm a developer) and…

I've considered joining Taekwondo for some time but worry that the lower belts will be to caught up in teaching very basic moves and the traditional aspects of the sport. I understand the need to learn the basics just wondering if you found this time a drag at all or it was all interesting and I'd have nothing to worry about?

I'm a black belt in tkd -- I wouldn't consider learning it for self defense; it's more of a sport/exercise.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by Rod »

jeb wrote: post #4

I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year. Difficult, but I assume interesting.

Why the rush? It's not like you're gonna be impotent at age 40 or something. The pressure to "do or die" in one year only is likely to jeopardize your effort... unless you date single, childless 40 year old women. But what self-respecting man would do such a thing when there are so many younger, hotter women?

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Post by chunkyslink »

I'm training for the 'Yorkshireman Marathon' in September in the UK. Its 26.6 miles of hilly off road tracks with over 3000ft of ascent. I don't just want to finish it, I want to get in between 3.30 and 4 hours.

The biggest problem at the moment is finding the time to train. Ideally I would like to be out everyday but I can only manage 4 days a week. Each training run is lasting upto 2.5 hours and finding that time each day is tough.

The rest is fun and massively rewarding. As I get fitter I need less sleep and I feel much stronger - both physically and mentally.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by felideon »

robryan wrote: post #49
felideon wrote: post #12

To do research in natural language processing. Roadblocks: * Time. Or if time = money then I need money to be able to spend time on this. Also, in itself this wouldn't bring in much income I don't think. * No CS background. Don't know where to start.

You will probably want to start with CS concepts, given that from what I have seen NLP is a very algorithmic area of research, having some CS/math background will help you a lot to understand what has already been done and to build on it. Now I'm not sure the best way to go about this, either learn the abstract concepts which might not be the best way to start or pickup one of the more pure languages which in turn wi…

Thanks. I'm assuming Common Lisp is a suitable language? Not sure which ones you would consider pure, other than Scheme or Haskell.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by petervandijck »

clistctrl wrote: post #55

Contemplating how to ask a girlfriend of 2 years how to take it to the next step when her view has been soured by a late parental divorce.

Just discuss it with her openly, not every marriage proposal needs to be about kneeling and stuff (that would probably just freak her out). Talk about it.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by earth »

To be the man who donates the most and the man who owns the least, at the same time.

Bottlenecks: My empathy is ridiculed by the way I live. I believe I can make more of a difference in a position of power then if I just move somewhere and work as a volunteer for the rest of my life. Though to get to power I have to live in this world which I hate.

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