Pratham Prasoon
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Pratham Prasoon
@PrasoonPratham
Spending too much time in front of the computer since 2004. I study math, invest in companies and build things.
- This is a blockchain made from scratch in ~50 lines of Python code.
- Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. Elon Musk is buying Twitter. I am buying JavaScript courses on Udemy. We are not the same.
- A store owner recently noticed an alarmingly high rate of shoplifting. He develops a machine learning model that predicts if a customer has shoplifted or not and it is 95% accurate! He deploys the model but a month later catches no shoplifters... Why? 🧵 👇🏻
- 4 years ago I asked my mom if she could buy me an Apple watch. She told me to buy one when I start earning my own money... ...and today I just bought two of the latest Apple watches for both of us, with my own money 😄
- Programmers who are a bit too commited to their Github be like.
- Buy a cheap laptop with somewhat decent specs. Install linux on it. That experience will rival what you get on most macbooks, seriously.
- Your Github and Discord will bring you more opportunities than any resume ever will.
- Being a self taught developer has given me the mindset of "I don't know how to do it yet, but I'll figure it out". I think that's a super power.
- You can mint an NFT on the blockchain in JavaScript with ~10 lines of code. No solidity, no testing... just these 10 lines of JavaScript. Here's how it works 🧵
- Probably the best decision that you can make this year: Replace 30 minutes of mindless scrolling on Tik Tok and Instagram everyday with a JavaScript or Python course.
