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Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:35AM (#46632306)
https://howtojeremy.com/

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

Re:Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday November 27, 2025 @08:27PM (#46074763)
I am very grateful for this site and community.
Re:Ask HN: Would doing a coding bootcamp be a horrible idea? on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:15AM (#39189209)
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.

Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas on Monday December 25, 2023 @08:10AM (#38762307)
Merry Christmas. I am very grateful for this community, I hope everyone has an amazing 2024.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:15PM (#36591970)
https://agi-today.com/

Writing about AI and AGI.

Re:Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated? on Sunday January 29, 2023 @06:03PM (#34573724)
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.
Re:Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated? on Sunday January 29, 2023 @05:58PM (#34573678)
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.
Re:Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated? on Sunday January 29, 2023 @05:50PM (#34573600)
Yeah. Legal expertise is really expensive.

Ask HN: What Needs to Be Automated?

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...

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Re:Ask HN: I suck at math, where to start? on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:16PM (#29910731)
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/

Re:Hello, Youki on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:13PM (#29826343)
This looks really cool, nice job.