Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by SubGenius » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 4:57 AM UTC

jcpst wrote: post #333

Making an album. It’s been a journey. For about a year I was trying to do it all by myself. Then one former band mate moved back, another reached out and we reunited to make new music. This is gonna sound corny, but after that first time we got back together to jam, later that night I was in tears because it playing with them again was such a large emotional release for me. Now we’re in a great place, we all want the…

Sounds great, good luck! I'm hoping to get back to making music again after a few years away due to health/life reasons. I definitely know that euphoric feeling of jamming with an old bandmate after a long break.

> Now we’re in a great place, we all want the same thing. We’re all in on making new music, no one is trying to make this a career or go on tour. It has to be fun, that’s number one.

This is key. I've made more music goofing off than I did when I sat down to write a song seriously.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by great_psy » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 4:59 AM UTC

charliewallace wrote: post #450

Ultra HDR - I predict it will cause a revolution in photography. This isn't the old HDR that was all about capturing a wider range of brightness; it refers to display of a wider range of brightness. It's built into Android 14 and you can now capture Ultra HDR images with the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro. Ultra HDR is really just jpg, uses the standard jpg extension and works the same as a regular jpg, unless your display softwa…

Can you post some example photos that you found to be a good representation of this format used tastefully ?

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by coffeesque » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 5:01 AM UTC

hahahacorn wrote: post #344

Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…

I also started running again relatively recently - about one month ago - definitely not to the same extent parent is doing it, but it managed to reduce the upper back pain I was getting from dev work

Also the mental health benefits cannot be understated, very glad I built it into my routine

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by melvinmelih » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 5:01 AM UTC

voxl wrote: post #434

melvinmelih wrote: post #422

Earlier quoted context omitted.

done: https://chat.openai.com/share/c8bc7305-6c75-4194-8753-b319d6...

I can't tell if you're making a joke, a troll, or genuinely believe what ChatGPT tells you with out bothering to test it. This is why I hate the AI hype, because people do legitimately do this and think "wow it's so smart." When I explained the halting problem using Python to a student he asked "did you use ChatGPT?" No. Of course not...

Lol it was a joke, but I imagine it won’t take too long before AI can start solving problems that we’ve been struggling with as humanity.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by not-my-account » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 5:05 AM UTC

nhatcher wrote: post #300

not-my-account wrote: post #35

I’ve been teaching myself abstract algebra, which has been really great! I’ve also now gotten to the point in the book where I’d like to discuss with other people.

Awesome! Which book are you following?

A Book of Abstract Algebra, Charles Pinter- it’s pretty good, each chapter is has a short description of the math and then many problems to work through. Would recommend

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by Timoha » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 5:07 AM UTC

UpAndOut wrote: post #347

Timoha wrote: post #76

Currently have some free time between jobs to explore what actually makes me passionate, so threads like this are really useful to get inspired! Been starting various projects to quickly figure out what I like and don’t like. Realized that I miss working on highly technical projects after working on consumer apps for a couple of years. So as a result been revamping my resume and planning my next steps in my software…

I'm a math student with a similar desire to learn more about these topics. I've asked around at my university about forming a study group around the following courses (which I myself would really like to study), but there seems to be little interest: Stanford CS143; MIT 6.824; MIT 6.001 . Would you like to collaborate on something along these lines?

I’ve taken CS162 (operating systems) a while back at UC Berkeley and that along with networking, CS168, were my favorite classes. And they probably were the most useful going into the industry as well, so I highly recommend that you dig in even if you don’t find folks to study with. Makes me wonder if someone already created a service to match study groups for open content classes from top universities like this

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by arach » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 5:15 AM UTC

hahahacorn wrote: post #344

Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…

I think it's worth consulting with PT/pros who could give feedback on the ramp up period and the load you're putting yourself under. What I've read in my research is that you can feel fine for a while but if you're not building up methodically you can cause yourself some long term issues but with a delay.

Congrats on the weight loss and figuring out that you can be a runner. It's quite liberating. I was never a good runner even in peak competitive basketball conditioning in my late teens and thought I would never be a runner until a few years ago. Keep pushing!

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by monstertank » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 5:15 AM UTC

I know it's a bit weird...but I'm really getting into creating my own religious style structure around modern AI programs.

Originally I was interested as a concept for a story, but as an atheist who was a very devout Christian for a long time I really wondered if there is some modern twist on the structure of organised religion and replacing a traditional meta-physical source of knowledge for a real world one (or group of them).

It has essentially turned into a framework of ritualism based around core concepts of various religious structure...with the ability to 'hot swap' your 'god' or 'AI' or 'book' or whatever source of wisdom you seek to lead your decisions.

It is much more complicated than I thought, but it is super interesting to me and while I have nothing that yet really helps me any better than normal reason based skepticism...I do like the ability to engage in tribal style ritualism in a modern context.

I've been trying to name it but so far all I have come up with is Algoruspicy (Haurspicy using algorithms) or Nexialism (Connection based philosophy)

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by arach » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 5:17 AM UTC

Gabriel_Martin wrote: post #474

hahahacorn wrote: post #344

Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…

Do please divulge, I'm at my heaviest, but have started jogging backwards to try to limit the damage as I get used to it again. What're your tips?

It might be better for your joints to walk on the incline (treadmill) until you are lighter. Might be worth building a program with a personal trainer and mixing in some weight training. Apologies in advance if you've already done all of the above

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by wannabebarista » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 5:19 AM UTC

surprisetalk wrote: post #19

Obsessed with quite a few things right now: • diving into plant law; writing a series on plants and property • research clamping mechanisms and jigs for woodworking with handtools • sadly smitten with all the genai advancements • plotting multiple "chaos for social good" projects • trying to figure out therapists can be so attuned to feelings while staying neutral • promoting tiny blogs and the "small web": https://b…

Thank you for blogs.hn! I'm a big fan of exploring what people on here are up to.