Real question, how did you learn how to code this well? I found your LinkedIn from your Github, and as someone who is just committing to becoming a SWE at 26, having learned a bit of Python and Matlab in college, and a bit of Java in high school, yet never fully grasped it and thus avoided it for as long as possible, I'm impressed by people who have this caliber of abilities at such a young age. Are there any tips or bits of advice you (or anyone else on HN for that matter) would give to someone who really wants to be the best they can possibly be at coding?
Hi, I have been coding on GitHub for about 2 years. There's no trick other than enjoying it and relentlessly programming for fun. You probably know this, but if you enjoy something, you'll likely be better at it than someone who doesn't! More concrete advice would be to become an expert on the fundamentals and then try to tackle large projects, things that you think you could definitely not do, but do them anyway.
I appreciate the response! Was there any structured curriculum you used for learning the fundamentals? As someone who isn’t in a CS program, I was wondering where a good place to start would be
No problem! With C, I started with the K&R book. This provided a great foundation for C and some fundamental CS concepts. I am unsure of the best way to obtain a more structured curriculum outside of college, as that is how I received mine. There are many YouTube video courses to choose from if that is the type of content you learn best from. And many for CS fundamentals. I would also highly recommend a combination of project-based learning with theory, as that will accelerate your understanding quite a bit. You could try looking for a programming buddy on Reddit on r/programming, too! Having someone at a similar skill level to you will make learning easier as you both share knowledge.
Concisely put. This is exactly the reasoning. The US is preparing for a potential war with China in 2026 or 2027, and this is how it is beginning preparations.
The app looks interesting, but I think it needs some documentation. I think I generated something? Maybe? I saw a spinny thing for awhile, but then nothing.
I couldn't get the 3d thing to do much. I had assets in the scene but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to use the move, rotate or scale tools. And the people just had their arms pointing outward. Are you supposed to pose them somehow? Maybe I'm supposed to ask the AI to pose them?
Inpainting I couldn't figure out either... It's for drawing things into an existing image (I think?) but it doesn't seem to do anything other than show a spinny thing for awhile...
I didn't test the video tool because I don't have a midjourney account.
Small request: if you could please add a "copy this page" button near the top of each page in the docs (perhaps next to the title of the page), it would make it easier to feed the docs into an LLM for guidance on how to build a project on top of Easel. Neat project!
Speaking as a former undergraduate and then graduate research scientist at a top 3 biomedical engineering program in the United States, I can tell you, students spend an unseemly amount of time on figures. The professor of one of the labs I worked in said an aesthetic figure can be the difference between getting into Nature or not. His collaborator on that paper happened to be a well-known professor who had papers published in Nature a handful of times. That was, apparently, one of his secrets.
Would you be able to share the name(s) of said professor(s)? I’m asking for a scientist I know who is researching figures and their impacts on publication. They’d be very interested in this!
