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Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated?

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Ask HN: Would doing a coding bootcamp be a horrible idea? 2 years ago

Former Bootcamp runner/teacher:

I think a bootcamp can be good (depends on the camp) to help you kick start the learning process. A few months in a place doing things daily can be helpful.

This is great if you really want to spend a long time doing this. It takes years to get decent at programming.

The promise that you will find a job right after I don't think is realistic. I am not saying it can't happen but it is very difficult. Companies have a lot of options now and typically won't even look at boot camp grads.

If this is a near life long investment, it could be useful to kick start that. Just with the caveat it will probably take time.

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Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated? 3 years ago

That is a good one. I think it is hard to make long term financial decisions. Should I buy a house or keep renting for a bit longer. What impact would this purchase have on my financial health.

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Ask HN: I suck at math, where to start? 5 years ago

I would say I felt the same way. I am also self taught and just have high school level math. For the most part of my career though it hasn't really been an issue.

But I want to learn ML so digging in. I feel like it is not as bad as I thought it would be, I think the problem with math information is assumes a lot of things. There are tons of notation that is really dense.

My recommendation would be to pick a project or an area, because math is huge. Try to find resources for that. So for ML it is linear algebra and Calculus. Try to find a bunch of resources and get different ways of explaining it.

I highly recommend:

Math for Programmers by Paul Orland

https://betterexplained.com/

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