FaunaDB is incredibly charming. It ticks all the boxes - faster, cheaper, better. The last time I had a good feeling like that was with Kotlin and MongoDB.
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What's the meditation guide you're following?
You can look up "The Mind Illuminated" by Yates (Culadasa) and Immergut. It is completely devoid of run-of-the-mill pseudo-spiritual stuff, and consists of practical advice that you can follow. It is a complete guide that provides step-by-step instructions.
I started reading this book some years ago but quickly gave up when after the first chapters it was made clear that you would have to put a lot of time into the practice. I don't remember what the book's recommendation was. How much time do you spend on it?
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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/ - R…
I haven't tried Duolingo in the last couple of years, but I thought it wasn't the best to begin with a language.
It's pretty good to learn basic vocabulary, but I felt you would need something before, just to get some grounding in the language. Like basic grammar, and a very high level overview of how the language "works". You can infer some of it from the example, but that's a lot more difficult than already having this context in my opinion.
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#314I've spent the past week attempting to learn about the reaction-diffusion algorithm[1], and trying to translate it into Javascript code which I can then use to build an online, interactive generative art demo in a 2D canvas[2].
Sadly, it's gonna take me some more learning and experimenting to get there.
[1] - https://itp.uni-frankfurt.de/~gros/StudentProjects/Projects_...
[2] - All the online code examples I can find are using three.js or WebGL shaders and I have a stubborn belief that this is doable in vanilla JS using the 2D canvas API. Just because I've failed so far doesn't mean it's a Bad Idea!
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#315Learning Terraform, Packer, Vault, Ansible to deploy docker containers on ec2. The project uses Laravel Jetstream for UI. Rails to manage some scrapers. And Go for some http routes to return proxies and ips of selenium instances. After that getting Grafana, Prometheus and Influxdb going.
I also need to learn German. If anyone wants to learn French in exchange and/or while pair coding.
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#316Deno! I’m a long-time Node.js and Python developer, and I’m excited about writing TypeScript that can finally compile into a single binary; very useful for building CLIs.
Deno’s locked-down permission system and wide support of browser APIs is really cool, and they’ve been cooking up some really cool stuff (see their new Deploy cloud service).
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#317Parameter 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.
Deep learning methods university course, along with several online tutorials and examples for using ray tune with pytorch.
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#318Clojure. Is a complex language but it seems really speeding up your programming when you learn how to use it properly. And the community is really addicted to it.
I started on Clojure a few months ago and I'm pretty obsessed. It's really reinvigorated my love of programming.
Same. But I think is just a bit difficult to switch from other ordinary languages, mainly due to the lack of a good way to debug. Cljs is wonderful, but reading an error on the console log is quite terrifying.
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#319I'm sure many here on HN did this long ago, but for me: Learning how to get by in a large org for the first time. 1 month ago I was responsible for the entire IT function of an SMB. I was the guy who knew everything required to get stuff done, and I reported directly to the CEO. A lot of processes were not formalised because the overheads of doing so weren't worth it. New job, now working for the government in a skys…
Try reading High Output Management by Andy Grove. He built many of the processes at Intel and his book is guide and a narrative on how he did it. The principles are now commonplace in many companies but no one tells you how they came about —- this book helped me figure out how management worked in a large company when I started at one years ago and gave a behind the scenes look which was helpful for me to decipher my experiences.
At the very least, reading this book is a way to pick the brain of one of the most brilliant managerial minds of our time (he passed away a few years ago). It’s usually hard to find good mentors in any company, so reading books is one way to get mentored by someone outside the company.
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I'm assuming that's a PX-S** series and I've looked at those, they are very good value for the money. Track your progress, make some videos and then look at yourself a couple of weeks or months later so you can see in a very concrete sense how you are progressing, this is a huge motivator, and it is easy to keep track of this on a day-to-day basis.
Yes, nailed it! Got a PX-S1000 because it's hammer action and I love the minimalist design. Will absolutely do this :) I'm so down to see my progress as I go. Today I had my class and started working on some chords!
Cool, mail me if you have questions, it sounds like we're roughly in the same bracket. jacques@modularcompany.com
best!