Self Learning Thread

[Nick]

In lockdown with people off work, has anybody decided to learn something new?

Have started pissing about with home automation and raspberry PIs and it's like a rabbit hole where I can see myself programming all sorts of unneeded shite.

 

[Joe King]

I've started reading books again. Got plenty that I've bought in the past but never read. Currently reading "Peaky Blinders - The Real Story" by Carl Chinn (local historian). More of a documentary type book, but it opens your eyes to what it was really like in the area at the start of the 20th century.

 

[Nick]

I've started reading books again. Got plenty that I've bought in the past but never read. Currently reading "Peaky Blinders - The Real Story" by Carl Chinn (local historian). More of a documentary type book, but it opens your eyes to what it was really like in the area at the start of the 20th century.

I have that, was from Tesco on offer a while ago. Havent read all of it but it was pretty interesting.

 

[Sbarcher]

Just read Big Sam’s autobiography, my first book in years. Going to get stuck into CCFC The Elite Era next. Lots of facts and data.

 

[Sick Boy]

Been trying to learn Python for machine learning to automate SEO tasks.

 

[Joe King]

I'm also trying to improve my Photoshop skills. I've had the program for years and just potter about with it, but I'm now on Photoshop 2020 CC and following the many tutorials on YouTube.

 

[djr8369]

In lockdown with people off work, has anybody decided to learn something new?

Have started pissing about with home automation and raspberry PIs and it's like a rabbit hole where I can see myself programming all sorts of unneeded shite.

I’ve messed about with Pi’s and an Arduino a bit. Something I’d like to do more of but I do a degree part time which takes up most of my free time with the rest covered by the Mrs reminding me I have to mow the lawn or fix something.

I’d like to learn some Python and general coding as going to be more and more useful in future and anytime I have dabbled before I have enjoyed it.

I see the Open Uni and some other providers have expanded their range of free courses so if anyone is looking to improve skills during this quiet period there’s something to look at.


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[Nick]

Been trying to learn Python for machine learning to automate SEO tasks.

Ohhhh what sort of things?

 

[Malaka]

My Gibson SG and amp are going to be brought out of the attic and I am gonna learn to play Thunderstruck

 

[Nick]

I'm also trying to improve my Photoshop skills. I've had the program for years and just potter about with it, but I'm now on Photoshop 2020 CC and following the many tutorials on YouTube.

Have a look on uDemy, they have been giving some courses away for free

 

[clint van damme]

I've started reading books again. Got plenty that I've bought in the past but never read. Currently reading "Peaky Blinders - The Real Story" by Carl Chinn (local historian). More of a documentary type book, but it opens your eyes to what it was really like in the area at the start of the 20th century.

I fucking hate that villa bastard Chinn

Once saw him claiming something from Cov actually came from Brum and have had an irrational hatred of him since!

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Been trying to learn Python for machine learning to automate SEO tasks.

How does knowing all the words to the Dead Parrot Sketch help?

If you can't get it to work rather than turn it off and turn it on again do you just shout "You're a very naughty boy!" at it?

 

[shmmeee]

In lockdown with people off work, has anybody decided to learn something new?

Have started pissing about with home automation and raspberry PIs and it's like a rabbit hole where I can see myself programming all sorts of unneeded shite.

Me and a mate started down this route before Alexa and Google Home were really a thing. Rabbit hole is right’

 

[Bertola]

With regards to those that have mentioned Python, we're due to be moving to either Python or R with work in the near/mid future. Any good online learning resources you've found?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

With regards to those that have mentioned Python, we're due to be moving to either Python or R with work in the near/mid future. Any good online learning resources you've found?

Loads and I’ll look and share some

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Learning material


swirl | Students


R for Data Science


Data Camp licences - https://www.datacamp.com/courses/fr...utm_content=datacamp generic (Exact & Phrase)

 

[shmmeee]

With regards to those that have mentioned Python, we're due to be moving to either Python or R with work in the near/mid future. Any good online learning resources you've found?

DataCamp is good from a DataScience Perspective. Learn Python the hard way is a classic. There’s loads of good python resources though.

R is the most horrible language I’ve ever experienced. You can tell it was written by non programmers.

 

[Sick Boy]

Ohhhh what sort of things?

At the moment just trying to use it to automate certain aspects of keyword research, I’ve got a new e-commerce client and potentially around 80,000 keywords to categorise and look at the intent behind them, it will majorly help cut down the time for it, still trying to get my head around it but it’s getting there. Can use it to automate all of the time consuming but important boring tasks.

 

[shmmeee]

At the moment just trying to use it to automate certain aspects of keyword research, I’ve got a new e-commerce client and potentially around 80,000 keywords to categorise and look at the intent behind them, it will majorly help cut down the time for it, still trying to get my head around it but it’s getting there. Can use it to automate all of the time consuming but important boring tasks.

Have a look at scikit learn (sklearn) very easy to use out the box models.

There’s a good text classification algo using bag of words on the 20 newsgroups dataset that’s very easy to understand I did for my Masters:

5.6.2. The 20 newsgroups text dataset — scikit-learn 0.19.2 documentation

Actually looking at what you’re doing something like Word2Vec might be a better bet then a simple cosine similarity and KNN to cluster them? (god I miss ML)

A Beginner's Guide to Word2Vec and Neural Word Embeddings | Pathmind

 

[Sick Boy]

Have a look at scikit learn (sklearn) very easy to use out the box models.

There’s a good text classification algo using bag of words on the 20 newsgroups dataset that’s very easy to understand I did for my Masters:

5.6.2. The 20 newsgroups text dataset — scikit-learn 0.19.2 documentation

Actually looking at what you’re doing something like Word2Vec might be a better bet then a simple cosine similarity and KNN to cluster them? (god I miss ML)

A Beginner's Guide to Word2Vec and Neural Word Embeddings | Pathmind

Wow great, thanks a lot for that!!

 

[shmmeee]

Wow great, thanks a lot for that!!

No problem. If you go the Word2Vec route you’re probably best to use an existing trained model rather than worry about training your own from scratch. Google’s News one is as good as any: Google's trained Word2Vec model in Python · Chris McCormick

And this talks about using GenSim and Python: https://towardsdatascience.com/a-be...dding-with-gensim-word2vec-model-5970fa56cc92

 

[Nick]

At the moment just trying to use it to automate certain aspects of keyword research, I’ve got a new e-commerce client and potentially around 80,000 keywords to categorise and look at the intent behind them, it will majorly help cut down the time for it, still trying to get my head around it but it’s getting there. Can use it to automate all of the time consuming but important boring tasks.

Can't you use semrush or anything like that?

 

[wingy]

Can't you use semrush or anything like that?

Only with Lube.

 

[Sick Boy]

Can't you use semrush or anything like that?

For keyword research but not auto categorising based upon architecture and for user intent so much

Also looking at using it to write tens of thousands of title tags and descriptions based upon rules for product pages

 

[Nick]

For keyword research but not auto categorising based upon architecture and for user intent so much

So you need to scan the page to decide what category the product should be in?

 

[Nick]

Ordering this set up do with my daughter

CamJam EduKit #3 - Robotics

I'm quite excited to make it.

 

[shmmeee]

Ordering this set up do with my daughter

CamJam EduKit #3 - Robotics

I'm quite excited to make it.

My Dad gets my daughters Kiwi crates each month, the STEM ones they’re pretty great generally TBH.


Tinker Crate: STEM & Science Kits for Middle School | Ages 9-16+ | KiwiCo

 

[Nick]

They are pretty good, I'll have a look for birthday presents I think. Nice to get away from technology and make things!

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Been working on my Spanish and Swedish most days on Duoling app. Definitely seen an improvement.

Also decided to start eating better this week but the energy to use the gym I made in the garden is slipping.

 

[clint van damme]

Felt quite proud brushing up on a bit of Excel.
Fuck me has this thread made me feel inadequate!!

 

[Joe King]

Have a look on uDemy, they have been giving some courses away for free

Cheers Nick! I'll have a browse.

 

[David O'Day]

Started one of those babbel courses in Spanish

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[Joe King]

I've just finished a colouring book. It said 3 - 5 years on the cover, but I smashed it in 2 weeks!
#feelingproudofmyself

 

[shmmeee]

Just to throw it out there:

MIT OpenCourseware: loads of MIT degree and post grad courses on various subjects: Find Courses by Topic | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials

 

[Nick]

Just to throw it out there:

MIT OpenCourseware: loads of MIT degree and post grad courses on various subjects: Find Courses by Topic | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials

Do you actually get a degree?

I've never really thought to look into certifications, just learn what I need.

I did a Google exam once and the bloke watched me on the webcam to make sure I wasn't cheating.