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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by solardev »

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 ?

fragmede already said it better :)

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Post by nesarkvechnep »

anonzzzies wrote: post #155

Deeper studying of hardware and software that drives deep learning for the simple reason that I find Python a horrible experience and I am wondering why there are no real alternatives in modern deep learning. Also home DYI, forest building and Portuguese.

There are real alternatives. Elixir's Nx is pretty nice.

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Post by greenie_beans »

how to be a better fiction writer. i wrote a novel and i'm revising it for the fourth time. i accidentally ripped off 'as i lay dying' by faulkner. i started writing my story about a funeral told in the first person present with multiple narrators and realized that faulkner had already done that. while writing it, i avoided reading him because i didn't want to rip him off more. but now i'm re-reading the book very closely and learning how he did it and taking some stylistic tricks. that book is genius, perhaps the best novel i've ever read in my life. it was a bad idea to avoid.

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Post by _dark_matter_ »

greenie_beans wrote: post #163

how to be a better fiction writer. i wrote a novel and i'm revising it for the fourth time. i accidentally ripped off 'as i lay dying' by faulkner. i started writing my story about a funeral told in the first person present with multiple narrators and realized that faulkner had already done that. while writing it, i avoided reading him because i didn't want to rip him off more. but now i'm re-reading the book very cl…

That novel is genius. If anyone here hasn't read it, you owe it to yourself to do so.

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Post by teecha »

How to communicate with people and get through negotiations and all of those tiny little conversations that happen day to day in our personal and professional lives with more success.

Started with Difficult Conversations last year and it was a total game changer. It has been instrumental in my professional and personal life. If I was going to share two key points for anyone it'd be to remember to listen and that you have also always contributed to the problem.

Working through Getting to Yes by the same group of folks now and it is just as great. A bit more high level but I plan to dive back into more specific areas afterwards and read through the just recently updated version of Difficult Conversations.

Want to hit Supercommunicators and Crucial Conversations later. I've decided that so many things break down, big and small, because of these seemingly small but ultimately important conversations. Always be soft on the people and hard on the problem.

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Post by codazoda »

greenie_beans wrote: post #163

how to be a better fiction writer. i wrote a novel and i'm revising it for the fourth time. i accidentally ripped off 'as i lay dying' by faulkner. i started writing my story about a funeral told in the first person present with multiple narrators and realized that faulkner had already done that. while writing it, i avoided reading him because i didn't want to rip him off more. but now i'm re-reading the book very cl…

I haven’t had success writing fiction just yet but I just read The Snowflake Method and I hope to give it a go. It’s a really interesting read.

https://a.co/d/gJrLsyM

This also got me interested in Creative Nonfiction and I’m reading about that now, although the Snowflake Method book is something else — a fiction story that explains a nonfiction subject.

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Post by orsenthil »

vinhnx wrote: post #112

I'm learning LLM at the moment, RAG particularly. [1] I ended up built InkChatGPT as my learning project and it was huge fun. It is an AI Agent that could help learning from multiple documents and you can chat with it, thank Chat PDF GPT. I use LangChain as LLM framework to simplify the backend, and using Streamlit as front end UI and deployment. Using OpenAI `gpt-3.5-turbo` model, Use HuggingFace embeddings to gener…

Very interesting project. I thought something along the lines for learning this field too. This is a great introduction. Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

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Post by hokkos »

Piano, I brought a second hand numeric piano Roland FP-30, and I use an old iPad with the app Piano Marvel connected in bluetooth to get the midi output into the app so it can grade me (if I play the correct note at the correct time), I also use a simple audio mixer to get the sound generated by the piano and the app into a single headphone.

I tested pretty all piano app and even if it is not the slickest or most efficient, it has the most progressive learning plan of all.

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