Almost up to 365 days on Duolingo: French, German, Italian.
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
The hard thing being to fall asleep or stay at sleep?
Both, but the biggest issue has been reverting to my side while asleep. I've re-aggravated my rhombus muscle a number of times doing that.
I often wind up sleeping in contorted positions, and I've had a similar issue with my rhomboid muscles.
About 6 months ago, I switched to a split keyboard and it's made a big difference for me. Sitting with my arms shoulder width apart has taken a lot of the strain out of my neck and back.
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#103I'm taking an online cohort class about Rene Girard's philosophy.
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#104Not learning anything just yet, but there’s quite a few things I’ve been wanting to learn when I get the time: • I’d quite like to learn how to do ‘low-level stuff’, particularly microcontrollers — I rediscovered an old Arduino which I’ve had some fun playing around with. I particularly want to get to the point where I can write low-level Forth code and flash it to the microcontroller. Also, I should learn assembly l…
Edit: I'm sorry, that EdX course doesn't seem to be the one I was thinking of. The cool website is https://www.tinkercad.com though. Definitely worth poking around and experimenting. There’s a great ( very low-level introductory) IoT course from Curtin University on EdX[1] that will teach you the absolute basics of circuitry and get you started building things with arduino. MIT also has almost all of their courses av…
Thanks for the recommendations! I was having trouble finding resources, so I’ll have to check those out.
(Further question: do you by any chance happen to know of a good textbook? I personally find that I learn better from textbooks than I do from online videos.)
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#105Developing a gameboy emulator from ground up with zig programming language.
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#106Complexity Economics
I've been binging books on the topic as well as exchanging dialogs with a colleague over email. Books list:
_Completed_
The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1422121038/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (Economics, Cognition, And Society) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0472064967/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671872346/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947864351?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_...
_To Be Completed_
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy - https://www.amazon.com/dp/087584863X?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_...
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#107Learning to teach. Teaching programming with python to my friend's kids over Google Meet. So much fun.
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#108- 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?
For first timers
- Duolingo(don't do it for more than a few months)
For beginners
- https://www.languagetransfer.org/free-courses-1#french
For all others, some sort of immersion approach is the only way if you don't live in the country. Figure out the general approach below and adapt for your target language.
- AJATT http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/all-japanese-all-t...
- TMW https://learnjapanese.moe/
- Refold https://refold.la/
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#109I've been getting obsessed a bit with guix (and learning a little Guile, of course), mixed with trying to sort out the Haskell stack/cabal situation for some complicated projects to package in Guix. Guix is very cool, and looking to build my next system with it. Any excuse to do more things with anything Lisp. In the meantime I've already submitted a few patches to fix bugs in some packages and the Haskell build system, first time I've done that in such a large project. A good learning experience so far, just hope those patches get picked up!
(I know it is supposed to be pronounced 'geeks' but I can't help but want to say 'goo-eeks')
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#110- Solidity and writing about it on my blog as I am getting more inquiries about work related to it.
- Exploring Manifestation and subconscious mind.