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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by neuralk »

Arun2009 wrote: post #495

My list keeps changing, but I have three main "projects" these days. - I will complete the final level of a beginner's Sanskrit course this August. This has been an intermittently executed project for me. I can follow uncomplicated spoken and written Sanskrit now, and can mostly understand Sanskrit at the level of Gita or the Indian epics. My long term aim is to be able to read Indian philosophical works in their ori…

Besides the course you are taking (is it an in-person class, or online perhaps?), are there any resources for learning Sanskrit that you'd recommend? I have the same long term goal as you! I'm looking to self-study the language since there aren't local courses where I live.

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Post by freeradical13 »

bigmit37 wrote: post #398
freeradical13 wrote: post #339

I've become bored with software. I just started a masters degree in Biology and have a vague and naive plan of becoming a cardiologist and running a lab with the primary goal of reducing human suffering, rather than money (been there, done that).

I’m actually interested in biology as well. I wish research equipment was cheaper for independent experiments.

There are some periodic auctions of equipment (usually from busted companies): http://www.biosurplus.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Arun2009 »

neuralk wrote: post #511
Arun2009 wrote: post #495

My list keeps changing, but I have three main "projects" these days. - I will complete the final level of a beginner's Sanskrit course this August. This has been an intermittently executed project for me. I can follow uncomplicated spoken and written Sanskrit now, and can mostly understand Sanskrit at the level of Gita or the Indian epics. My long term aim is to be able to read Indian philosophical works in their ori…

Besides the course you are taking (is it an in-person class, or online perhaps?), are there any resources for learning Sanskrit that you'd recommend? I have the same long term goal as you! I'm looking to self-study the language since there aren't local courses where I live.

My course is the famous one by Samskritabharati (https://www.samskritabharati.in/). It's a correspondence program, but they do conduct introductory contact classes as well. They also deliver materials overseas. Samskritabharati also has online video lectures (http://www.samskritashikshanam.in/), but they are in Hindi.

I have audited a few introductory courses from vyoma samskrita pathashala (https://sanskritfromhome.in).

There's also the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan in India (http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/) who have a two year introductory correspondence course. I believe they deliver overseas as well. I did the first year of their course with the help of a tutor I hired from urbanpro.com, but (as with all things GoI) I found the experience to be far less satisfactory than Samskritabharati's.

If you can read Hindi, you can also look at the school textbooks by NCERT as well, which are available for free (http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/textbook.htm)

Two "Western"-style books that I would recommend are:

* Devavanipravesika (An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language) by Robert Goldman

* Samskrita-SubodhinI (A Sanskrit Primer) by Madhav Deshpande.

One thing I want to do is to work through these books once I am done with Samskritabharati just to cement the things I have learnt.

The nice thing about Samskritabharati's course is that it doesn't just teach the language, but it also introduces you in a gentle (but unapologetic!) way to the whole tradition that flourished through it's medium. They also publish books in Sanskrit, which may also help you in your education.

Good luck!

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Post by deadwanderer »

taneq wrote: post #473
andreigheorghe wrote: post #459

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Without these numbers it's hard to support your premise. His premise is that "anybody could learn coding if they tried", whereby "tried" I assumed applies to only the people who passed those two rounds of self-selection you describe.

That's kind of like saying "anyone can run a marathon" and then qualifying it to "if they enter an organized event and complete the appropriate training for it".

The idea OP is working to combat or disprove, though, is not that "People can succeed without effort". Rather, they are working to prove that software development is a skill which can be learned by most/all people, and not some highly intellectual undertaking out of reach to all but the most mentally elite.

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Post by arooni »

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Also seeking suggestions on how to learn marketing, it's a skill I'm keenly interested in acquiring.

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Also writing about entrepreneurship and personal excellence at https://www.davidparkinson.com and polishing up my 'find your phone, escape a boring meeting/date service' https://www.phonemyphone.com (fun fact, launched this on Hacker News 10+ years ago :P).

Feel free to rip any of those ideas/concepts apart :P.

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Post by chmielewski »

zxcmx wrote: post #81
chmielewski wrote: post #3

Automated deployment systems where solar powered mesh network repeaters with two camera channels each (SBCs) come online and handshake/pair then push auto-configurations, SSH, lighttpd for IP camera images, etc. Then go to secure mode to lock it all down and configure it for operating mode. Edit: think in trees, weatherproofed with solar panels

What hardware do you use? I’ve looked into this and found power management really challenging.

https://www.solar-electric.com/me-sbc.html These are nice and I like weatherproofing them rather than buying a pricier marine-grade solution

Power HARVESTING and having a downtime/idle hours is key in my experience.

I like the Banana Pi Pro because it has onboard wireless and two camera channels built in. People often get third party bolt-ons that further complicate power consumption issues.

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Post by jeffreyrogers »

gradschool wrote: post #478

I recently finished writing a book about asynchronous circuit design and set up the landing page for it [1]. It's my first crack at modern-ish web technologies, using bootstrap for the front end and making it serverless on AWS S3 with a couple of lambda functions written in go for the back end [2] [3]. I'm getting to grips payment processing and book printing but giving the ebook away free. [1] http://www.delayinsens…

Just wanted to say that I took a look at your book and it is really fascinating. I'm glad you took the time to write it and thanks for giving the ebook away. I'm a self taught FPGA designer (started out in software and switched to hardware because I like it more), so a lot of what you cover is totally new to me. I'll definitely be working my way through the material as my schedule permits.

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Post by abrichr »

dietervds wrote: post #421

Im a bit late to the party, but outside of work I spend most of my professional time on a curated newsletter for infosec news: https://securitynewsletter.co/ . Two years running, just crossed 5700 subscribers. MRR between $600 and $1000. Most successful thing I ever started and still love doing it. Kinda scary to have an “audience” of that size :)

Cool! How do you monetize?
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