Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
That I'll never be able to afford property.
My focus is on psychology and backend (+devops) technologies right now.
Psychology: attachment styles, soft skills, how to connect better to other people
Backend + Devops: Asp.net Core, Go, Github CI/CD, Docker
Live looping. I've played in cover bands for 20 years, but haven't done much solo gigging in a long time. I also have been pretty technophobic as a musician.
Well, I got a full featured looper and drum machine and a bunch of other equipment and I'm trying to adapt my cover band repertoire into a solo one-man-band kind of thing. It's going well and I'm actually really inspired.
I’m trying to learn statistics. I’m up to implementing regressions in python using sci-kit learn.
I was playing around with Bayesian modelling last night with https://bambinos.github.io/bambi/ But I’m not really sure how to interpret the outputs.
Always open to reading about learning resources/books/videos/courses from others.
I've been trying to get back into maths a bit, and this is one of the things that I've been reading, slowly:
Oh cool thanks for the rec this looks very focused on the topics I am interested in solving.
Trying to learn Thai...
Currently learning French for fun (c'est difficile!)
Professionally learning a lot about Kafka and Event Sourcing.
Personally trying to learn how to raise a happy and healthy child in anticipation of my first born, who is imminent!
How about you?
I'm building Canvas courses for CompTIA A+ Core 1, A+ Core 2, and Network+ certification prep.
I'm revising a Canvas course for CompTIA Security+ certification prep.
Please, when you done with that don't hesitate sharing it here in this thread.
When I think they are ready, I plan to share the Canvas courses through Instructure's Commons.
Ping my in January, 2024 and ask me to post links.
Trying to understand how to create DIY analog electronics. Have a lot of components still feared to open a door from read theory to practice.
Music, and building science (for domestic heating).
Psychology - goal to study and compare human consciousness and human perceptions of machine consciousness
:O I thought that was cognitive science?
Yes I think you can approach the topic of consciousness from many different disciplines, neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, philosophy etc…
I’m learning Go to build a small backend for a rhyme dictionary in my language.
How are you learning it?
I’m having conversations with ChatGPT 4. Since my framework of choice has always bern Django, I’m asking how to do this in Go, and how to do that in Go. Also this https://go.dev/tour .
So cool!
Savate, advanced knot tying, meditation, advanced shell scripting, and R.
How to fix really old Ham Radio gear.
How to live on a small fixed income.
I am learning Graohic Design & the Figma tool.
Currently enrolled in German A1.1 course
Control Theory but just for kicks
F=MA basic physics
You can get surprisingly far without calculus.
In the UK you can take A level physics which is like the study you do before you go to university.
You can take A level mathematics at the same time and you learn calculus there, but for people who take physics without mathematics, a lot of the physics course is not calculus based.
I.E assume constant acceleration and use the suvat equations https://mmerevise.co.uk/a-level-maths-revision/suvat-equatio...
That being said the more mathematics you know the easier physics concepts will be to understand, recognise patterns and see how a system model is generalised, I.e there’s an analogue across multiple topics because it’s all basically differential equations used to model the situation.
<3 I love physics, too.