Hacker News: sharp11

New comment by sharp11 in "The average college student today"

sharp11 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:57:39 +0000

From your numerous comments on this topic, it seems that you are remarkably self-aware (for a college student) about your own learning process. That is kind of amazing. I hope you really know just how broken the system that you're describing is and that it is absolutely worth fighting to figure out how to really learn something hard.

Also know that there's a yin and yang here. You're in a broken system--but the system used to be broken in other ways. Your point about there being too many resources strikes me as fascinating and true--and yet we have efforts like Three Blue One Brown taking teaching to a whole new level. People who figure out how to learn are always in a golden age.

New comment by sharp11 in "Recovering from a kidney donation"

sharp11 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:57:41 +0000

Penny Lane just made a documentary about donating one of her kidneys to a stranger. It’s called Confessions of a Good Samaritan: https://www.sandboxfilms.org/films/confessions-of-a-good-sam...

New comment by sharp11 in "Cellular communities reveal trajectories of brain ageing and Alzheimer's disease"

sharp11 — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 01:10:33 +0000

More details here without paywall:

In game-changer, Israeli researchers find Alzheimer's markers 20 years before onset

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-game-changer-israeli-resear...

New comment by sharp11 in "Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase"

sharp11 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:47:16 +0000

This looks super interesting, congrats on reaching 1.0! If you do a lot of customization on the Android side, do merge conflicts become a headache? Also, does the Skip plugin assume that you're using Xcode's built-in git?

New comment by sharp11 in "General Theory of Neural Networks"

sharp11 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:52:42 +0000

Personally, I find the writing to be just fine. It is clear and cogent. I don’t have enough background to follow all the details, but I certainly hope you are not discouraged from pursuing big ideas by negative comments on style!

Can AI be superhuman? Flaws in top gaming bot cast doubt

sharp11 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 21:46:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02218-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40921568

Points: 2

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New comment by sharp11 in "Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot"

sharp11 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 01:18:27 +0000

As someone who uses ellipsis often, but certainly never with sarcasm in mind, this was fascinating and shocking to me to learn this. I also want to appreciate @bluestein’s graceful response to the misunderstanding.

New comment by sharp11 in "The Physics of Karate (2021)"

sharp11 — Sat, 04 May 2024 05:35:46 +0000

I’m disappointed this was all about the stunt of breaking things. I study Okinawan karate and true masters generate tremendous power via the tantien and rooting into the ground. It would be interesting to read a western analysis of that.

New comment by sharp11 in "Ask HN: Buying Yourself a Job"

sharp11 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 01:21:19 +0000

I’m surprised that no one has suggested: pick something that you actually care about, which may not be a lucrative job opportunity, but gives you the opportunity to “make a difference“. Most nonprofits desperately need help with their tech.

A while back, I took a leave of absence from the tech industry to work on climate change issues, and was amazed at what it felt like to work on issues that really seemed important.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be climate change, but if you are interested in that, you might have a look at: https://airminers.org/

New comment by sharp11 in "Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality"

sharp11 — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 01:43:03 +0000

There is an open source effort to do carbon removal: https://openaircollective.cc/

New comment by sharp11 in "Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI"

sharp11 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:43:00 +0000

I'm not the target audience (I prefer CLI), but as an iOS dev just wanted to say kudos. Great idea and looks to be very well executed. I'm curious to know how your experience with SwiftUI was on MacOS?

New comment by sharp11 in "Physicists discover a new switch for superconductivity"

sharp11 — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 02:15:33 +0000

Like many here I was wowed by the physics of this article but also wanted to say this is some great science writing. Super clear and to the point.

How generative AI is building better antibodies

sharp11 — Thu, 11 May 2023 19:59:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01516-w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35907627

Points: 1

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New comment by sharp11 in "Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children"

sharp11 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 03:53:19 +0000

That is utterly fascinating. From his pov, is it a problem, or only from yours?

Open-Source Science Initiative

sharp11 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 23:25:03 +0000

Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/open-science-overview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34375306

Points: 8

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New comment by sharp11 in "Launch HN: Patterns (YC S21) – A much faster way to build and deploy data apps"

sharp11 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:32:01 +0000

Congrats on the launch! As an iOS dev who dabbles in ML, I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by "data applications" and who this is for. I'm guessing it's targeted at teams that crank out lots of small apps and therefore investment in learning your platform would make sense? It would be helpful if you gave clearer explanation of the use case(s), beyond the generic "customer data platforms, fintech companies building lending and risk engines, and AI companies building prompt engineering pipelines" (which, tbh, means nothing to me).

New comment by sharp11 in "Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang"

sharp11 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:17:29 +0000

谢谢!

New comment by sharp11 in "Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang"

sharp11 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:44:07 +0000

Could you provide a link to original (Chinese) article?

A graphics toolkit for visualizing genome data

sharp11 — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:10:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02191-z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32555050

Points: 1

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Using smartphone Lidar to track erosion

sharp11 — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 22:54:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01118-y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161878

Points: 1

# Comments: 0