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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mind sharing resources you’re using to learn? Also do you have background in music theory or is this from scratch?
I built pianojacq.com to help me practice sightreading and to keep track of where I'm making mistakes. It is still far from perfect but quite useful. The main problem is to get the pieces I want to practice into MIDI format, but there is a wealth of MIDI files out there that can be used with a little editing. I have this pipeline where I take a youtube video, download it as an MP3, convert that to MIDI and then edit…
I'm on the same journey with the guitar, highly recommended, was one of the key things that improved my life during the pandemic -- and still excited to keep at it afterwards.
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#73Back-end development! It's quite a paradigm shift from front-end, a lot of known unknowns and even more unknown unknowns, I'm trying not to panic too much as I'm deploying my Sass in production. I'll get good eventually (but the anxiety might never go away).
I was going to say this, but you already did, so yeah, me too. I'm enjoying it a lot more, so far. I don't like the pixel-perfect demands of front-end, and actually find back-end more of a creative exercise so far.
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#74I am going through SICP. I have just begun.
I am learning more about Transformers architecture and modern NLP using the Hugging Face API.
Building a computer from scratch using nand2tetris on Sundays.
Learning to meditate following a detailed meditation guide. This has been working better than I expected.
Going on and off with learning classical music online (with a piano).
Learning German.
I am primarily focused on learning deploying AI to embedded devices right now. Working with the TinyML book and the course on edX.
As someone who does Computer Vision for a living, and always loved Electronics in college (no microcontrollers experience), I am finding it right at home with this. I wish I had started earlier. Really liking the experience.
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#75Figuring out how to debug third party application in Windows on event it crashes. Without source code or anything, I wonder if I will ever get down to the root cause.
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#76I’ve been playing with bare metal Raspberry Pi programming and really enjoying it. There are two great frameworks — Circle and Ultibo. The former is in C++, but the latter is in… Free Pascal. Which is kinda weird but kinda fun. Having a Pi boot up and run your application in 2-3 seconds is pretty stunning.
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#77Haskell and Elixir. Also thinking of trying out Gleam.
I also started learning Elixir, really loved it.
But I have wanted to go through the whole of SICP for a while. I realized that that is a better thing to do (grow core, fundamental skills) during the pandemic where I can get uninterrupted time.
I can learn a language any time. But I was more focused towards learning the functional paradigm rather than the language itself. It's a fun language to code in, though.
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#78Parameter tuning for deep learning models.
What resources are you following? How are you learning this in general?
In most cases, it's just a big and elaborate grid search done manually.
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#79I’ve been playing with bare metal Raspberry Pi programming and really enjoying it. There are two great frameworks — Circle and Ultibo. The former is in C++, but the latter is in… Free Pascal. Which is kinda weird but kinda fun. Having a Pi boot up and run your application in 2-3 seconds is pretty stunning.
Hold up. Do all the peripherals work?
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#80- Graphics Design because people really listen when stuff is pretty. - French which has to be done but is quite hard. - Some math because the more I work with computers there more I understand how it would be very useful. - Combat sports because it keeps me fit and its good for your posture if you know how to throw a punch. - Traveling. Never learned it, work too much and would like to see the world before being an o…
I have been "learning" French for 5+ years... what resources are you using that you would recommend?