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Ask HN: What do you keep learning and forgetting about?
- croo 6y agotar vaeqfop9xndb.. file.tar.gz
- huhnmonster 6y agoCalculus. The basics and ways of thinking stick quite well, but specific execution of some algorithms escape my head as soon as I don't use them anymore. I guess that's just the way learning at uni works though
- the_only_law 6y agoJust about anything I've tried to learn in the past 5 years. I get really excited about a project, start reading,, planning, learning it inevitably stalls for a dumb reason, I rapidly lose interest, and the later get excited again but have to go bacl and remember everything. Repeat.
- st1x7 6y agoProbability theory. Multiple books/courses/videos and I still have problems with recalling basic formulas or solving fairly easy problems. I find it weird because I don't have the same problem with other branches of math.
- mattmanser 6y agoI've had the same problem since I was a teenager! I'm great at all other types of maths, pick everything up really quickly. I've always thought it's because much of it is counter-intuitive, and so it doesn't work with my brain doing it's normal 'jump 3 steps ahead, yeah, yeah, I get it, get on with it' thing.
- afarviral 6y agoln -s target linkname or was it the other way round? Grrrr. ln --help. Also; tenses e.g. simple present... Also I always forget to stay on top of the chores and get up when my alarm goes off....
- punchclockhero 6y agoFTP commands At one point I just gave up and started using Filezilla.
- drinkcocacola 6y agoObjective-C Block syntax. That made me a heavy user of http://fuckingblocksyntax.com http://fuckingblocksyntax.com
- neha_t 6y agothat first things should be done first, but ...
- therm0 6y agoEverything. Most of my work is touch and go, and I'm constantly having to switch contexts and technologies. I just try to bookmark what I think is important and take notes when necessary.