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Post by mailarchis » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 4:34 AM UTC

34. Learning Economics. Reading Principles of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw . I didn't take a course in Economics while in college and am trying to make up for it and build a better understanding of how the world operates.

I finished the Machine Learning specialization offered by UWash on Coursera a few months back, but I am not happy with my grasp on the subject and plan to dive deeper with a project and few books in next few months.

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Post by tjansen » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 8:44 AM UTC

42, Machine learning. I discovered Coursera for me and worked through a number of courses. People say that learning is getting more difficult as you get older, but so far it is getting easier for me. When I was younger I didn't have the patience to learn something if I had no immediate need for it. There were distractions everywhere. Now it is much easier for me to focus on a single thing.

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Post by mr_t » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 9:11 AM UTC

24, how my daily habits (sitting, walking, ...) were the root cause of all my aches and how to adjust them to get rid of most aches. Still learning, but so far the results are incredible.

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Post by ninedays » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 9:56 AM UTC

32. I learned that humans can cry because their pet is dying. I cried because my best friend cat died (14 years R.I.P.) and it felt like it was my cat. I know it sounds stupid but this was a life lesson to me.

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Post by personlurking » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 10:01 AM UTC

37 - uh, that Spain's Extremadura region introduced, as part of its sex-education curriculum, masturbation workshops for girls and boys over the age of thirteen.

https://harpers.org/archive/2015/07/ars-erotica/

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Post by Lordarminius » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 10:31 AM UTC

HelloFellowDevs wrote: post #118

21. Just started going through the K&R text to learn C, it's definitely helped some aspects about programming that I didn't get in my Java courses. Also doing it exclusively in vim so I can practice typing and making sure I learn a lot of vim and terminal commands.

That sounds like an investment that will pay off in spades.

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Post by andyjohnson0 » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 11:11 AM UTC

50. Machine learning.

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Post by kirankn » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 11:54 AM UTC

41. Connecting GatsbyJS to Wordpress. Awesome software, both of them. Learning about them now.

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Post by aliencat » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 11:58 AM UTC

Immortalin wrote: post #93

JoelSanchez wrote: post #76

24, how to create a k8s cluster with kubeadm using cheap VPSs. Also, sea waves are more dangerous than I thought

How are you handling node additions and removals? Terraform?

Autoscaler(https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster...) is a good option too. Works incredibly well at automatically adding/removing nodes based on workload.

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Post by aliencat » Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 12:05 PM UTC

jakidud wrote: post #29

mohitmun wrote: post #28

25, learned vim, went from 100% sublime to 100% vim in 6 months.

What are the differences and why do you prefer vim?

I would say that in terms of efficiency, Vim is >= Sublime. I have yet to see anyone using a GUI text editor beat the text editing speed of Vim. Plus, you are at full productivity when working with terminal. Think about how easy it is to ssh to a server and edit files with Vim.