I've been learning about Firebase by building something for fun.
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#382Prolog. I think that genetic logic can largely be expressed in Prolog to enable doing some crazy stuff that hasn’t been explored yet. It’s crazy to me that synthetic biology hasn’t really used logical programming yet for gene design.
Have you any thoughts on medikanren? I think they are generally _thinking_ as you do but in the short term that project is more about searching medical knowledge bases as opposed to logical programming of/with genes.
I can't find that much information about it online, but it looks great from a outside perspective! Wish they had a paper or something.
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#383Violin duets. Worst case, I can learn both parts, record one part, and then play the duet with myself.
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#384Making my way through the Robotics Specialization (Penn Uni series) on Coursera, almost finished the first course on Aerial Robotics.
By the end of the year I hope to have built a autonomous drone, with a custom flight controller (both motor control and sensing).
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#385I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but LeetCode. I've recently been furloughed, and I think that redundancies aren't too far away. There aren't many companies hiring in my area at the moment, and if I'm going to move it's going to be for a big company, so I'm dusting off the CV and am applying to some Big N companies. A recruiter recently reached out to me, and I've got an interview with one Big N company comi…
On LeetCode, how would you estimate the split between slogging-enldlessly-at-things-I-already-know and I-actually-learned-something? I had never heard of it until I read the thread under your comment so I apologize if this is obvious to people in the know. From the comments it sounds like more of the former and less of the latter. I had a good experience with Project Euler back in the day (account long since lost). T…
Leetcode problems can be solved by extrapolation from FizzBuzz programming. They can also be solved by engineering insight of algorithms and data structures that are applicable to processes that don’t fit in RAM. That’s what makes Leetcode plausibly useful for evaluating candidates. Bad engineering will get correct output and good engineering is possible. Neither requires significantly more effort writing code.
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#386I'm learning the ins and outs of WebAssembly. I just picked back up writing my compiler to WASM for my toy programming language (think JS crossed with ML). Right now I'm getting a feel for writing stack based bytecode and implementing basic features like local variables and control flow. It's not much, but I just got factorial to compile in my language which felt totally awesome.
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#387dotnet interactive (aka Jupyter notebook with a C# kernel). Been using it along with XPlot.Plotly to chart various CV datasets from JHU, the NYT, etc,
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#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
This really reminds me, it's been two decades now since I've taken _any_ Algebra. I'd really love to go re-learn it from the basics on up. I mean, I still remember a lot of it here and there but some sort of refresher course up to doing more advanced would be awesome. Any recommendations?
Hell yes! I love hearing about people interested in abstract algebra and wholly support your endeavor! Here is a pretty decent resource on relevant texts: http://www.cargalmathbooks.com/#Abstract%20Algebra That page in general is pretty gold for math texts in general. Also, #math on freenode has lots of algebra-strong users on it, though depending on your luck some can be less helpful than others. I love chatting abo…
Hi there, the email field doesn’t show up - you need to put it in your about section for people to see it :)
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#389Learning the bond market, figuring out the different characteristics of all the different types of bonds, what the risks are, what the potential for gain is. I trade options on equities regularly and recently a friend has been looking for help on figuring out how to handle a large amount of money they came into, so I figured brushing up on bond investing would be helpful since their risk tolerance is substantially lo…
What resource are you using for bonds and what did you use for learning options?
I've become interested in stocks/trading recently and have been wanting to understand it well enough before losing all my money. I started Financial Markets [0]. Just finished Week 1 and it seems a little too broad/dry so far. Any recommendations are welcome.
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#390I'm learning about trading bots. It allows me to learn new things about software développement (réactive streams forum example), mathematics, machine learning and deep learning I made it as a side project : https://github.com/cassandre-tech/cassandre-trading-bot And i am writing a guide about what i learned : https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/
This is incredible - Thanks for sharing. Kudos for using the latest goodies provided in spring-boot.
I had an older version but wasn't using reactive. Definitely, this looks promising.