warriorkitty

Every day I have about 2 hours of free time to learn something new. Problem is, when I start searching for something new, I immediately lose myself in a big number of topics I'm interested in.

After 2 hours, I read about 10 topics and after 2 days I can't remember most of it.

I would like to create my own software with a list of groups and a list of concepts/topics in those groups where I would randomly get a topic/concept and a list of links to read.

For example:

Algorithms

- sequence search

- graph search

Compiler theory

- top-down parsing

- distributed processing

So, once a day I would open my software, choose a list of groups and get a random topic.

I need HN to start with a list of groups and topics that are interesting so I can publish this application and maybe we can all learn new things.

Also, there could be a topic linked to the randomly chosen topic which will say "If you don't understand merge sort, try with bubble sort." with a link to bubble sort.

What do you think?

I've seen many, MANY times a lot of amazing articles and links here in HN. The problem is that I read only 20% of things I would like to read because of "not today, I'm too busy".

I would like to start saving all links, articles, and other information I'm interested in.

I'm curious, how much material here do you actually read and what are you using as your TODO reading list?

I've seen some brilliant people here and I'm pissed off because I need to pay big money for research papers. After reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11279903 I don't see why can't we create our own system.

Some points:

1.) people can upload different versions of the document (you would want to change if someone tells you that you have a typo)

2.) people can comment on documents

3.) upvote-downvote system

4.) free, open source, no ads

I can create a simple codebase for this and I will need help if things get bigger.

What do you think? Your honest opinion is most welcome!

Hi HN community! I'm learning Ruby for a few months and I must say I'm impressed. After seeing this gem (https://github.com/kanwei/algorithms) and that it is authored 1 year ago last time, I would like to create a gem with more algorithms (especially Machine Learning algorithms).

What algorithms you still write on your own, which I could publish as a gem? Also, this was a GSoC project, do you think this could again be a GSoC project after 7 years?

I'm thinking about implementing many of "data structure" algorithms in C, for Ruby.

Thank you!

I'm 22 years old and I'm spending my every free minute reading about many topics. Some of my teachers told me that it is time to specialize myself and I don't think I'm ready to make that decision. I don't want to be a Microsoft guy, SAP guy, PHP guy, Virtualization guy, Networking guy etc... I would really like to be "a little of everything guy" but "a little of everything" could not get you a nice paycheck, even if you know a lot. (Am I wrong?)

After a few years of BI development on my full-time job, I'm getting tired of creating some localized and specialized app for a small group of people who use my software and curse me on a daily basis. I mean, I was perfectly happy when I was a junior developer and when I didn't know everything I know today about web development.

I'd say that I'm interested in machine learning, recommendation algorithms, big-data analytics. What if, after 4-5 years, I get really good at that field and get bored? I'd say it would be too late to change to something else.

How did you choose your field of specialization? Are you happy with your choice now?