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Learning python update: I seem to have crossed some threshhold into "being able to google things"; after asking a lot of people a lot of questions, I now have a vague intuition for how coding kind of "works", which is making it *way* easier to figure things out myself.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 1, 2022

Twice now I've asked other coders a question, they didn't know the answer (despite googling), and then I went away and figured it out on my own. This was *stupidly* satisfying (i'm not any more skilled, just put way more total time into it, but it feels SO empowering)

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Jun 1, 2022

the feeling of cracking a problem in coding is really an amazing high, i had no idea how good it would be Anyway I think I crossed this threshold at around... maybe 15-20 hours of direct focused learning

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

(er, to be clear i mean 'direct focused learning' as like asking people fast questions and demanding satisfaction to immediate curiosity to figure out solutions; I spent many more hours on my own "practicing", like fucking around with stuff I already kind of knew)

4:06 AM · Jun 1, 2022

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This (neural net in 11 lines of Python) got me into machine learning. Baffling for a while, but playing around and getting this stuff to work is satisfying on another level. iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/12/bas

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So 15-20 hours of the Q&A on telegram, and how many hours across how many weeks of muddling on your own? 100 hours since May 5 (the start of the telegram chat)? You are set up for years of that rush feeling just wait until you learn multiple regression and cluster analysis.