Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

Post by chadcmulligan » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 9:45 PM UTC

aabajian wrote: post #110

I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad... HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images…

Post by kejaed » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 9:51 PM UTC

Post by andai » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 9:56 PM UTC

alphydan wrote: post #203

hemezh wrote: post #130

The way we educate our kids hasn't changed a lot in centuries. MOOCs are great but completion rate is a real and yet unsolved problem. I believe the biggest advancement in the field of education is going to come with VR. With VR, we can dramatically reduce the cost of "learning while doing", which should be the only way of learning. With AI, we can provide highly personalised paths for learners. VR and AI technologie…

What about the kids who won't put on the VR headset because they prefer to snap-chat, chat, youtube, waste time, do social posturing? I think, for middle school, it's easy to underestimate how much of education is not actual content. How do you deliver education that targets the teenage anger / passivity / disappointment / and emotional roller coaster?

Post by jdormit » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 10:02 PM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #183

donaltroddyn wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is one area where webdev is way behind other fields, and i think we're going to see lots of new tooling in this area soon. We're currently working on a way to help devs test web app functionality and complete user journeys without having to actually write tests in Selenium or whatever. The idea to is let devs write down what they want to test in English ("load the page", "search for a flight", "fill the fo…

>wants to reduce complexity >tries to do so by using an imprecise, context-dependent language designed for person-to-person communication to instruct a machine ??? Selenium is its own can of worms, but it absolutely sounds like you're using the wrong tool for the job here. The problem stopping people from writing browser-based tests is not that people can't understand specific syntaxes or DSLs, it's actually the oppo…

Post by kevinnk » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 10:07 PM UTC

bem94 wrote: post #58

mafribe wrote: post #13

Compilation: - Meta-tracing, e.g. PyPy. - End-to-end verification of compilers, e.g. CompCert and CakeML. Programming languages: - Mainstreamisation of the ideas of ML-like languages, e.g. Scala, Rust, Haskell, and the effect these ideas have on legacy languages, e.g. C++, Java 9, C#. - Beginning of use of resource types outside pure research, e.g. affine types in Rust and experimental use of session types. Foundatio…

I work in CPU design. So I'd add that the tools for formally verifying CPUs have come a very long way in the last two years, and the next two years look like they will be very exciting indeed.