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Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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Very cool. What tooling are you using? I've found the world of FPGA tools to be bewildering to the point that I've abandoned my projects and my Nexys3 languishes in a drawer.

I would suggest using myhdl (www.myhdl.org), and then plugging the verilog/vhdl it generates into your vendor's tools.

Very neat, thanks.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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I spent an entire day trying to decipher how to replace spaces with tabs. Wish I had been better with regular expressions.

Have you looked at sed yet?

Sed was the problem. On Mac the syntax is slightly different and it doesn't take \t as tab. Those two curve balls took some extra research.

I didn't actually take the entire day. :)

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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Mandarin Chinese

Me, too! My whole family (wife + two young kids) started private tutoring about 6 months ago. What kind of resources are you finding helpful?

I learned a bit on my own time last year. Check back on this thread in a few days—I'm writing up a post detailing how I went about learning it with links to a whole bunch of resources. It'll probably be useful to you, so I'll post it as a reply to you here once it's done.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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post #95

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Very cool. What tooling are you using? I've found the world of FPGA tools to be bewildering to the point that I've abandoned my projects and my Nexys3 languishes in a drawer.

I would suggest using myhdl (www.myhdl.org), and then plugging the verilog/vhdl it generates into your vendor's tools.

Thank you! I'm looking on the internet for help/books also.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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Distributed computing using Python Techs: HBase, MLLib and Spark (Most of my time) Spatial SDR Reconstruction with NuPIC (1 day a week) Spanish using Duolingo (20 mins a day) Game development with ImpactJS (only 1 day a week)

Hey could you provide some resources for learning Distributed Computing using Python. I was thinking of using Go but since I know python to a considerable extent, I wanna give Python a fighting chance for making distributed systems.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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I'm trying to dive into EmberCLI. I want to get into the whole the 'web via API' mindset and separate things into logical applications.

So I built my Rails 4 API, and Go API, and they're really really fast.

I'm also building my web client with EmberCLI. It's a blast so far as well. I really enjoy the benefits a framework like Ember brings to the table. Structure structure structure. 3 years from now, I want to know my way around the project.

Re: Ask HN: What new skills are you learning?

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Distributed computing using Python Techs: HBase, MLLib and Spark (Most of my time) Spatial SDR Reconstruction with NuPIC (1 day a week) Spanish using Duolingo (20 mins a day) Game development with ImpactJS (only 1 day a week)

Hey could you provide some resources for learning Distributed Computing using Python. I was thinking of using Go but since I know python to a considerable extent, I wanna give Python a fighting chance for making distributed systems.

Sure thing -

I'm not one for reading books I think there's more value in just building stuff:

Check out Prediction.IO - http://prediction.io/ it's an out of the box machine learning server, it uses hbase, but hbase in this configuration is sitting on top of the local filesystem, not HDFS -- so the first task I assigned myself was to learn how to setup hadoop, and then configure HBase to store data in HDFS.

Once I have that, I'm going to use PySpark to use spark to query the data. (Thats where the python comes in)

Another cool project (not related to the tech stack above) is Pyro https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pyro4 ... this consumed a whole weekend of mine a few weeks back, building a small distributed search engine for querying compressed DNA sequences ... think a parallel boyer-moore. As a learning exercise try doing that, it's great fun!

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