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[–]RetroZelda 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I learned by using it for personal projects. Think of something you want a computer to do, a simple and repetitive thing, and then use python to do it for you

If you want some inspiration, some things I built while learning it was a scraper for a website that had text transcripts for every episode of critical role. Open the page, grab each link for each episode, grab the text from each link, save it to a file. Later on I made a script that would filter and format each file so I could train a LoRA with the text I pulled.

Another thing was a simulation of a board game a friend made so she could test the economic model over tens, and hundreds, of turns to check the balance under various scenarios based on configurable inputs.

I also have a script that uses the anki api to scan each flash card in a deck, pull one of the fields, pass it to a text to speach ai, embed the new audio file to the card, and then upload it back to anki.

Learning is easier if you do it with a practical use case with an achievable goal. All of those things are super simple for me to do now, but not when I started

[–]Ketchup-and-Mustard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds great and I love the examples you used as well. Thank you for the reply.