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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by Shugarl »

solardev wrote: post #30

Working my way up to calculus for the first time in my life, at nearly 40 years old. I've always hated math :( When I was a kid, they always told me math would be super useful, especially if I liked computers. Well, 20+ years of a dev career later, I still have never used anything more than basic arithmetic and rudimentary algebra (to calculate responsive component sizes). But with web dev jobs going the way of the h…

> web dev jobs going the way of the horse-drawn wagon

Could you elaborate please ?

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by fragmede »

Shugarl wrote: post #121
solardev wrote: post #30

Working my way up to calculus for the first time in my life, at nearly 40 years old. I've always hated math :( When I was a kid, they always told me math would be super useful, especially if I liked computers. Well, 20+ years of a dev career later, I still have never used anything more than basic arithmetic and rudimentary algebra (to calculate responsive component sizes). But with web dev jobs going the way of the h…

> web dev jobs going the way of the horse-drawn wagon Could you elaborate please ?

chatgpt is proficient enough in writing web dev CRUD app code, which leads some to believe it'll lead to obsolescence of that particular skill set, and collapse the job market and pay for that, much like the skills of a horse-drawn wagon driver, or a buggy-whip manufacturer.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by pjacotg »

solardev wrote: post #54
slekker wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What resources are you using to learn calculus? I am on a similar boat

I'm taking a class at the local community college. It's OK, just some class notes and an e-textbook that I never bother to read. The pedagogy is much as I remember it, the teacher going through the problems on a whiteboard and expecting everyone to rote-memorize things. But mostly, I'm learning from ChatGPT. You can enter (or take a picture of) any problem and ask it to break it down step by step and it does that ver…

There's a popular math book called Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz which is about the story of calculus. It's really good and may help bring the subject to life as opposed to rote learning problems.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by fluentbyfire »

Shugarl wrote: post #120
fluentbyfire wrote: post #117

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What are your thoughts on this method so far ?

When I "blitz", I'm looking for an immersive, memorable experience in my target language. Learning is merely a bi-product of that.

That said, as someone with an A1 ability according to CEFR (I started learning Polish 5 months ago), my ability to follow along with a native speaking narrator, even at 2x speed, has improved exponentially. My exposure to Polish vocabulary has also exploded, and I'm familiar with many Polish words in their various grammatical forms. However, I haven't committed to long term memory as many Polish words as I'd like to. Many meanings are still fuzzy, like a word at the tip of the tongue. I think I just need to see these familiar but fuzzy words in more diverse contexts before they are nailed down. That means more blitzing.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by avidiax »

voisin wrote: post #79
lylejantzi3rd wrote: post #6

Basic electronics, so I can build one of these and maybe extend it to three computers: https://github.com/jfedor2/screen-hopper/

What resources are you using to learn basic electronics?

This is a bit dated, but if you are interested in general electronics (rather than digital electronics), you can try https://repairfaq.org/.

Digital electronics is in many ways much easier, but the analog part tends to sneak in everywhere, especially when you find your digital stuff isn't working. I think it's hard to design anything new, even digitally, without at least a working knowledge of how Ohm's law, LRC circuits, transistors, diodes, op-amps, etc. work.

I don't think it was this course, but I recall checking out an impressively thick book meant for US Navy technicians. The advantage there is that the assumption (unlikely college textbooks), is that you are intelligent but not college educated, and you need to know how to work on nearly anything electronic. Again, the focus is mostly the analog side. https://archive.org/details/NEETSModule01/mode/2up

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by msadowski »

robinhoodexe wrote: post #74

Nix for developer environment and building containers. I’m wondering if it’s worth it to introduce to the rest of the company. We’re pretty comfortable building/“maintaining” ~400 container images, and it’s relatively fast (~3-5 min build time if no packages are changed), but there a lot of shared dependencies between all these container images, and using nix to get actual reproducible AND minimal container images wi…

Can you recommend any resources on nix?

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by tonyoconnell »

ivansavz wrote: post #72
lord-squirrel wrote: post #36

Marketing, Sales and SEO for a SaaS of mine. Found out that is what sells your product and not the features of your product.

Do you have any recommendations for learning resources for marketing/advertisement/SEO ? I want to get into that, but it's a very noisy domain with lots of "experts" selling their knowledge, so difficult to know what is good or bad.

GPT 4. Read Alex Hormozi and Russel Brunson’s books (marketing) Frank Kern for Ads and Matt Diggity for SEO
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