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Re:Ask HN: Which topics are hard to self-study? by ggm on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:16AM (#36193015)
* UX

* Practical project management and team management

* Anatomy

Re:Ask HN: Which topics are hard to self-study? by fuzzfactor on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:54AM (#36193266)
In chemistry, the part with the chemicals can be kind of challenging. The more toxic, the less you would probably want to do it on your own. Many labs require more than one person on duty as a safety consideration. I would usually suggest "don't try this at home" :)

Throw in trying to make progess with electronic chemical laboratory instrumentation and there's an even bigger hurdle.

And that's without even necessarily getting into actual electro-chemistry.

Regardless, I did it anyway in what became my private practice, but definitely not at home nor in my spare time.

As far as the CS aspect, I just wrote the code myself as I went along, they didn't have commercial software when I got started, and when it came out it was not exactly what I needed plus too costly for just one person anyway.

Re:Ask HN: Which topics are hard to self-study? by beardyw on Monday June 05, 2023 @03:08AM (#36193356)
This 17 year old had a try at nuclear.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

Re:Ask HN: Which topics are hard to self-study? by Quinzel on Monday June 05, 2023 @08:30AM (#36195305)
Easiest topic to self study = any philosophy. Most difficult thing to self study = how to use expensive and complex lab equipment.
Re:Ask HN: Which topics are hard to self-study? by kleer001 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:50PM (#36199145)
Anything that involves another human. Massage, psychiatry, customer service, anatomy, doctoring, etc...
Re:Ask HN: Which topics are hard to self-study? by VoodooJuJu on Monday June 05, 2023 @08:21PM (#36206376)
Ruling & upper class wealth management and politicking, as a peasant.
Re:Ask HN: Which topics are hard to self-study? by nameforuser on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @03:58PM (#36218321)
Anything I'm not currently hyper focused on, as someone with ADHD.