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Chiff0

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Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do you become an expert in a field, starting from scratch?
Hey! Thanks for the response. I’ll look into it, but that’s a few years ahead, I’m only in sophmore year of undergrad. But yeah, I’ll first start with the fundamentals. Thanks again!
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do you become an expert in a field, starting from scratch?
Thanks for the advice. So basically, just get immersed into the world of the field as much as possible?
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
What exactly do you mean by that? Something like volt.fm?
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
Haven’t actually. I know how some of this stuff works at least findamentally. I built some circuits in Minecraft and a game called Turing Complete (which is amazing) and I had took a digital circuits class. I liked it quite a bit, so it might be interesting to dig deeper.
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
Thing is, I’m very early in my journey, so I’m not exposed to many obstacles, besides learning. I’m thinking of just getting myself an intership in a software company which make ssoftware for clients, that way, I’d be exposed to many problems and how things work, then go from there.
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
That’s an interesting idea, I don’t really have any experience in the space, so I’m going to have to look into it.
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
Pandoc runs locally, or there are 2 bad looking websites that run it. I wonder if it would be worth making a good looking UI with pandoc running in the background.
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
Hey! So sorry to hear that. Unfortionately, I have never done anything with embedded devices, so I feel like it’s beyond my capabilities.
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
Thanks for the suggestions! Something that really interests me is both data conversions and AI, I’ll try to find something interesting to work on that is in an intersection for both topics. Alternatively, I got an idea to make a tool for comverting a Minecraft world file into a real time render of the world, and make it look good since there is only 1 tool that exists and is pretty outdated and I’ve seen people wanting a wabsite to do it, not a console application.
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
Actually, there are classes, especially the coding ones where material is scattered all over the place, especially the old exams. Can’t think of a solution from the top of my head, but it seems like a decent idea.
Chiff0··on Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff?
Thanks for the advice. You’re right, I shouldn’t be doing something exclusively for profit. I guess I should just go and make something I think is really cool myself. Thinking about it, I always wanted a universal tool for transforming files feom different formats, I don’t know how complicated something like that would be, guess I’ll have to find out.
Chiff0··on Ask HN: No-code data import pipeline builder, possibly a good idea?
Ok. Sent a mail.
Chiff0··on Ask HN: No-code data import pipeline builder, possibly a good idea?
Thanks for the reply. If I understand correctly, it would be a safer option to focus on data migrations between production and analytics systems?