HACKER Q&A
📣 jason_slack

Help me utilize my passion


To help with my mental health, I am rebooting my life. I now will work for myself, be myself, grow myself utilizing my passions in life.

I am going to spend 3 months in a remote cabin (with an ice-cold stream for ice baths) working on my passion.

I am fluent in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese and I also enjoy coding in c++.

What are some ideas for programming projects utilizing my knowledge of these languages?

  👤 jstx1 Accepted Answer ✓
How is it a passion if you need other people to tell you what to work on?

Look, wanting to make a change is a healthy thing but most radical change decisions don't go anywhere. Start small and set yourself something concrete that you can achieve.

👤 kadonoishi
You could use word2vec [0] to process bodies of text in those languages, then use your C++ to build cool visualizations. The geometrical shapes that the processing finds in the languages might give you interesting insights.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERibwqs9p38

👤 billybuckwheat
Why not spend that time in the remote cabin thinking about the kinds of projects that you want to tackle? Then, when those three months are up, dive into them.
👤 mikewarot
Take no computer, only paper and pen/pencil. Spending 3 months away from the computer should give you plenty of ideas, and time to think about how you would implement them. The best art sometimes comes from working around obstacles.

You could spend that time volunteering somewhere non-computer related. Interacting with a bunch of new people might also help you discover your passion.