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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU lan... on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:31AM (#45745977)
Irish and English are both official languages in the Republic of Ireland. Irish is the first official language and English being the second.

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2003/act/32/enacted/en/p...

Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU lan... on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:25AM (#45745915)
Basque doesn't seem to be but Catalan, Galician are

https://huggingface.co/utter-project/EuroLLM-9B

Re:Ask HN: Good Town in France, Italy or Spain? on Thursday October 17, 2024 @05:58AM (#41868025)
One thing to consider do you speak any of these languages (i.e. French, Italian or Spanish) or at least willing to learn?

Just an opinion and my experience of course but I think learning the language greatly helps from meeting new people and to integrating into that country. Of course you could live in a tourist town which have a lot of English speaking inhabitants but then house prices are probably going to be higher and you're probably not getting as an authentic experience

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite DIY kits? on Thursday October 03, 2024 @10:41AM (#41731243)
I'd like to have a go at some of the diy audio amp kits like this for example:

https://diyaudiostore.com/pages/project-starving-student-ii

Re:Ask HN: What's the best book(s) to grasp statistics? on Friday May 31, 2024 @05:41AM (#40533059)
I like Alan Downeys books Think Stats, Think Bayes. He introduces topics in Statistics using python:

https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-stats-2e/ https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-bayes/

Re:Ask HN: Resources for kids/teens to learn programming on Thursday February 01, 2024 @09:01AM (#39215959)
Al Sweigarts books also a good option too and available online for free

https://inventwithscratch.com/

https://inventwithpython.com/invent4thed/

Re:Ask HN: Is there a low cost way to learn real K8s, after exhausting... on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:48AM (#37390451)
How about this? It will setup a kubernetes cluster on GCP with 3 worker nodes?

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

Some costs here but click on the google cloud calc as it seems to have gone up since he wrote this: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/b...

You can always shut it down when not in use to lower costs of course

Re:Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN? on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:16AM (#34325127)
It's linked off Trevor Hasties webpage see here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOzrYsAxzQy...

Re:Ask HN: What are the foundational texts for learning about AI/ML/NN? on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:15AM (#34325114)
Nice I didn't realise they released a 2nd edition this book and also new website too! Thanks for sharing
Re:Ask HN: Learn K8s on Monday March 14, 2022 @10:32AM (#30672881)
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/ is a good place to start, you can use minikube installed locally or else you the interactive sessions provided by katacoda which gives you a quick way to get familiar with it
Re:Ask HN: Beginner to Competent in Python: How would you approach it? on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:26AM (#30358666)
There's some nice information/ideas on this stackoverflow post on how to develop your python knowledge

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2573135/python-progressi...

Re:Ask HN: What books, courses, practices helped your mental health la... on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:26AM (#26912757)
There's a Spotify playlist of his podcast episodes related to mental health here

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ruKlNJJXHaK0GDiCxsHAP?si=...

Re:Cool Machine Learning Books on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:48AM (#25034174)
I didn't know about this, great way to get better insight
Re:Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampling, Part 1: The Basics (2019) on Thursday October 29, 2020 @07:04AM (#24929185)
Agreed, that YouTube playlist along with his book of the same name really helped me get a good understanding of Bayesian Statistics/MCMC

https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/book/student%E2%80%99s-guid...

Re:Bastion Fort on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:52PM (#24453723)
Think this was posted before but the French military are building these today

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35863/the-french-army-...

Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning TCP/IP? on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:04AM (#23789546)
RFC-1180 TCP/IP Tutorial, very good and clear introduction to TCP/IP

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1180

Re:Ask HN: Good beginner resources to learn chemistry on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:10PM (#23664288)
Wow great post thanks for that!

I actually did a semester on introductory chemistry but was completely over my head and kind of scraped by and forgot most of it, didn't help that I hadn't done secondary/high school chemistry. I guess what has really sparked my interest is that I've gotten into brewing beer and the chemistry/biology side of things has made me interested again. The impact of different minerals present in the water to the biochemistry side of brewing so would just like to understand better the chemistry behind it. pH plays an important role in beer making so was already planning to get a pH meter anyway but could use it for other experiments as you've mentioned

Re:Ask HN: Good beginner resources to learn chemistry on Saturday June 27, 2020 @06:45AM (#23660951)
Thanks that looks good will take a look!

Ask HN: Good beginner resources to learn chemistry

Posted by ranc1d on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I never did much chemistry in school or college and mainly concentrated on biology and physics. I've started to gain an interest in Chemistry especially Biochemistry but am finding my lack of basics holding me back.Does anyone have any good resources online or books that they could recommend?

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Re:Ask HN: Career and life advice for a 30yo on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:40AM (#23476404)
basically means working as a contractor in the US
Re:Ask HN: Anyone here climbed up from rock bottom? How did you do it? on Monday June 08, 2020 @09:47AM (#23456432)
This is so important! "You have to like yourself first, before others can like you."!
Re:New XPS 15 and 17 inch launch imminent on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:02AM (#23154726)
I'm a long time MBP Pro user but definitely will be switching next time I'm upgrading.
Re:A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra, Spring 2020 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @05:35PM (#23085355)
A short introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang
Re:Comprehensive Tutorial on Time Series Modelling and Forecasting on Friday May 01, 2020 @11:00AM (#23042608)
Adding link in case others are intested!

https://gluon-ts.mxnet.io/

Re:A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography on Sunday April 26, 2020 @07:10AM (#22986284)
Would you mind sharing your blog site address? It sounds like it would be interesting read
Re:Ask HN: Best book to gift someone for getting into software enginee... on Monday December 23, 2019 @05:39AM (#21862773)
great quote and very applicable to IT/Software development
Re:The Zen of Weight Lifting on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @08:02AM (#21647460)
This guy is a vegetarian weight lifter and goes through what he eats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHrysja5lYw

Also another one of his videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5fsqg6aJOI

Re:Ask HN: What is your recommended VPN for personal use? on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:50AM (#21637151)
Wasn't NordVPN hacked recently?

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