translate cognitive psychology to code
Can you elaborate on this? Are you saying replace therapists with a software product?
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Ask HN: What's an important problem that more people should work on?
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#93Reinvent information access ("search") for the mobile world. The current paradigm google mini-me model, or even glorified chatbots like siri, are nowhere near where they should be. This necessitates a complete rethink of the searchbrowse paradigm.
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#94I am going to focus on US centric problems. Here are the two areas I think Americans could use the biggest help: 1) Personal finance - Americans across the board lack basic financial competency. This effects the US across the board, people take on too much credit card debt, school debt, etc. This problem is across all classes (lower, middle, upper) - Americans do not understand basic things on how to budget, how much…
Wouldn't that come under education though?(Australians have the same problem). I didn't realise how bad it was in Aus until I moved to Japan. Edit: I was referring to your first point, sorry.
Ideally, I agree it should be taught in school. But frankly, our education system is so screwed on even teaching basics, I don't think it could handle something as critical as this.
What about something that would get both parents and their kids involved? This is a multigenerational problem and it might help to get everyone involved on both points.
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#95When a scientist wants to make progress in some field, the scientist first educates herself on the state of the art, and then does novel research that pushes the frontier. When you have a discussion on facebook/reddit/HN about your favorite political issue, you just post your gut feeling and what you heard on TV instead of educating yourself on the issue, learning what the foremost experts are currently debating and…
Well education is how you solve this but we chronically underfund it and every kid is a blank new mind so progress is lost when we don’t teach.
In the West we have two general views on the nature of humans; intrinsically good or fundamentally bad. The rest of modern politics is shaped from this.
The internet and Facebook helps to find a diversity of thought but also in general does not promote critical thinking skills (which you’re suppose to learn in high school)...
since as we’ve seen facebook just degenerates into an echo chamber where blatant propaganda is unquestioned and in fact promoted. Critics are fake news and we refuse to critically debate. You see this in Congress where they blatantly lie about tax cuts, health care etc...
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#96Healthcare. The issue with 'important problems' not only that they are much harder to solve, but also that lots of people will ignore your project.
Personal example: I started https://www.juvmed.com (it's not ready for Show HN yet). Shared on my facebook, got 4 likes, no comments. My selfies get 50 likes. Demotivating.
Btw, any feedback on that project is welcome. Thanks
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#97There are probably huge strides that can be taken in healthcare, food, energy, transportation and finances. The challenge is that most of these industries are heavily regulated so you go in optimistic then get inundated with endless waves of bureaucracy, and end up making a new version of Twitter. I'm personally fascinated with the transpiration industry. Everything from city bikes, to self driving cars, to hyper loo…
Definitely feels like SpaceX just ate Boom's lunch last night.
Tell me about it! I think it's going to come down to cost. If SpaceX is anywhere near $2,500 a flight, it's going to be a tough slog for Boom.
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#98Anonymous employer review system for US teachers and education administrators.
Teachers throughout the US are not treated equally, but because everything about them is open and publicly available, there is no way for them to review their experiences and forewarn other interested candidates until it’s too late.
Glassdoor is “fine” except it’s not really oriented towards education, which is quite a world of its own.
I tried to work on this concept two years ago, but didn’t get very far. Authenticating teachers anonymously is difficult.
Feel free to email me for more info.
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#99Batteries. Batteries are the number one technical problem right now. A battery with energy density approaching crude oil would revolutionize the world beyond even what the Internet did. We really don't have an energy generation problem, we have an energy storage problem.
"Batteries" is a pretty good answer, but I'd argue that getting cost down is more important at this point than raising energy density. Tesla proves that you can make long-range vehicles with today's battery energy density. The batteries are just too expensive at present to deliver an under-$20k-USD vehicle that can sustain 5 hours of freeway driving between charges. For grid scale storage, which would be needed to ge…
> For grid scale storage, which would be needed to get to really high penetration levels of renewable electricity, energy density is even less important. A paltry 50 watt-hours/kg would be perfectly fine if the battery also offers low capacity fade per deep discharge cycle and low costs.
For grid scale storage there's also options like pumped hydro storage. Cost / kwh can be much lower than batteries, depending on site and scale. Might need to start with a budget of $50m-500m though.
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#100Journalism! If you haven't noticed, the world around us is falling apart. Personally, I consider this malady of discontent just a result of letting every idiot post their comments on the internet. But that doesn't change the fact that something needs to be done, and I think it's more of a problem of teaching people how the process works, not so much to change the outcomes. Generally, I see people reaching for conspir…
Agree, somehow, high quality journalism sources like the main broadsheets need to move away from the cathedral-website model to a pay-per-article model. Realistically, people aren't going to spend more than $20-$30 per month on journalism. And realistically, given the enormous variety of high quality (and often free) content available, people certainly aren't going to spend that $20-$30 on a subscription to one or two newspapers. Healthy society needs free journalism, journalists need to be paid, people nowadays ain't gonna buy subscriptions to entire websites when they can read, like, the internet.