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New comment by jbot27 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jbot27 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:35:29 +0000

My personal blog that now has my photography portfolio. It is slowing becoming more photography focused as I continue to obsess about it.

New comment by jbot27 in "Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving"

jbot27 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:27:40 +0000

I am very grateful for this site and community.

New comment by jbot27 in "Ask HN: Would doing a coding bootcamp be a horrible idea?"

jbot27 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:54 +0000

Former Bootcamp runner/teacher:

I think a bootcamp can be good (depends on the camp) to help you kick start the learning process. A few months in a place doing things daily can be helpful.

This is great if you really want to spend a long time doing this. It takes years to get decent at programming.

The promise that you will find a job right after I don't think is realistic. I am not saying it can't happen but it is very difficult. Companies have a lot of options now and typically won't even look at boot camp grads.

If this is a near life long investment, it could be useful to kick start that. Just with the caveat it will probably take time.

New comment by jbot27 in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

jbot27 — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:10:17 +0000

Merry Christmas. I am very grateful for this community, I hope everyone has an amazing 2024.

New comment by jbot27 in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

jbot27 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:15:01 +0000

https://agi-today.com/

Writing about AI and AGI.

New comment by jbot27 in "Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated?"

jbot27 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 23:03:59 +0000

That is a good one. I think it is hard to make long term financial decisions. Should I buy a house or keep renting for a bit longer. What impact would this purchase have on my financial health.

New comment by jbot27 in "Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated?"

jbot27 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:58:08 +0000

Exactly. That is my point. AGI would be great but there could be things we could apply ML or AI that would be a really helpful to people.

New comment by jbot27 in "Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated?"

jbot27 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:50:01 +0000

Yeah. Legal expertise is really expensive.

Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated?

jbot27 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:43:14 +0000

Chat GPT and Stable Diffusion are really cool, but outside of Alpha Fold, AI hasn't, to me, yet brought a ton of value to humanity.

I have been thinking about what would really be a game changer to people's lives to have automated processes.

Would it be food production, medical care, or education? Insulin production, maybe?

Putting aside if the tools are ready or not, what would be a high-leverage area that, if there were automation at some level, would have a huge positive impact on people's lives?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34573551

Points: 9

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New comment by jbot27 in "Ask HN: I suck at math, where to start?"

jbot27 — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:16:54 +0000

I would say I felt the same way. I am also self taught and just have high school level math. For the most part of my career though it hasn't really been an issue.

But I want to learn ML so digging in. I feel like it is not as bad as I thought it would be, I think the problem with math information is assumes a lot of things. There are tons of notation that is really dense.

My recommendation would be to pick a project or an area, because math is huge. Try to find resources for that. So for ML it is linear algebra and Calculus. Try to find a bunch of resources and get different ways of explaining it.

I highly recommend:

Math for Programmers by Paul Orland

https://betterexplained.com/

New comment by jbot27 in "Hello, Youki"

jbot27 — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:13:57 +0000

This looks really cool, nice job.