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Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by thomas93 »

thiago_fm wrote: post #17

Improved my German considerably. Can definitely deal with any situation by now, but I still have much to improve. Also learned a lot of Elixir. Both are things which in the past year I've commited to learn. Learning is a constant process, next year I expect more of the same, but a higher mastery level! Also learned a decent amount of management things, better organization skills etc, but that I didn't plan for.

Out of curiosity, what steps did you take for improving your German?

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by borncrusader »

thiago_fm wrote: post #17

Improved my German considerably. Can definitely deal with any situation by now, but I still have much to improve. Also learned a lot of Elixir. Both are things which in the past year I've commited to learn. Learning is a constant process, next year I expect more of the same, but a higher mastery level! Also learned a decent amount of management things, better organization skills etc, but that I didn't plan for.

Kudos! What do you think are some good resources to learn/get better at elixir?

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Post by nevi-me »

Learnt Flutter and built an Android app.

Learn{t|ing} Rust, ported a lot of stuff from Java/Kotlin and JS to Rust.

Started my third degree, Maths and Stats. First semester went well, but I had to bail out of 2nd because of life issues.

I hadn't planned on learning Kotlin, everything else was planned.

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by h1d »

Finally had the opportunity to use Rails after not liking fat frameworks for over 10 years and kept using my own framework instead and learnt I never actually needed it.

It attracts non decent programmers and code is usually not great when you inherit a project which causes performance issues later on and things in Rails are just odd.

Variables and methods are predefined with unnecessary English plural/singular rules which you can't tell if it's a variable/method defined by the local developer or done by rails and had to google so much to know how to use it when that knowledge is completely useless once I leave Rails.

Always better to learn the actual underlying tech like SQL.

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by satori99 »

I decided to try my hand at hardware design. Just for fun, not profit. I expected to make modest progress because it has always seemed like some sort of dark art to me.

I spent a small amount of money on some Chinese FPGA boards and I have been having a great time building things and doing experiments with logic gates instead of software.

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by davidgrenier »

Basics in Probability as well as a superficial introduction to Stochastic Processes. Decent foundation in mathematical analysis. Continued progress in calculus and basics in differential equations. Covered parts of the history of mathematics from 4000BC up to Newton/Leibniz. Did some mathematical modelisation, improved in R. Learned a basics in Mathematica and Matlab. Introduction to differential geometry. Had a solid introduction to group theory. Started an introduction to numerical analysis.

Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?

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Post by hambos22 »

I started studying intensely math since May (~2-3h/day) to fill some huge gaps. Calculus up to multivariable, linear algebra and discrete math.

After those, some basic ML and I hopped straight to DL.

For CS related: Kotlin, Algorithms Design, Operating Systems & basic Networks. I'm preparing for OMSCS and I want to strength my application by earning as much MOOCs as I can. It was a very difficult -but enlightening- year.

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