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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.

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...

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...

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?

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!

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.

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.

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/

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

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?

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.

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

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).

谢谢!

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

I can't speak to Spain, specifically, but the relationship between climate change and wildfires is well-established. See for instance: https://www.preventionweb.net/files/73797_wildfiresbriefingn...

Our past forest management practices are a part of it, but climate change is also a huge part: <https://www.c2es.org/content/wildfires-and-climate-change/>

This kind of thing is what Wildlabs is all about: https://www.wildlabs.net/

I do know boot camp grads that have succeeded.

Lambda’s deferred tuition model is life-changing for the people who can make it through. Many of their students come from backgrounds and life situations where no other option is really possible. That alone makes me want to root for the whole approach.

It’s true that the teaching and curriculum are uneven, and i wish they were less so, but you could say the same about many colleges.

There is a moral hazard here, but the reality is that we’ve passed the point where emissions reductions alone can get us where we want to be. We will need both reductions and removal.

Unlike many commenters here, I came to praise Swift. Of course there will be regrets -- nothing's perfect -- but on the whole I think the designers (and community) did an amazing job with Swift. I say that after having written multiple apps in Objective C -- I would never consider going back.

Optionals and null safety, first class enums, first class functions are just lovely in swift, all in a language that is super readable when well-written.

Read Anders Ericsson’s book on deliberate practice

If you're interested in learning to ID birds by ear, check out Larkwire[1][2]. (Full disclosure: it's my app.) I can attest that knowing what you're hearing is really a delightful way to expand one's connection to nature!

[1] iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/larkwire-learn-bird-songs/id54... [2] web app: https://www.larkwire.com

And similarly https://libro.fm for audiobooks

Could you elaborate? Doesn’t this require users to have telegram installed?

... and fast.ai?

Self-promotion here, but my app, Supercoco, is far better for serious learners (Spanish only, iOS only). Focuses on speaking and listening rather than reading and writing, and is based on a large quantity of high quality content (about 300 conversations) that most apps just don’t have. https://supercocoapp.com

As the article explains, it’s sequestered in soil through practices like no-till.

Might not be what you meant, but SuperCoco is an iOS app that teaches Spanish primarily through voice interactions.

smooch.io is great