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Okay, I'll help him humble brag: Bryan is in his last year of high school. </end> Keep building!
by snake_doc 2y ago
Okay, I'll help him humble brag:
Bryan is in his last year of high school.
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Keep building!
- GardenLetter27 2y agoYou study quantum mechanics in High School in the USA?
- byran 2y agoWe discussed wave functions, probability, fermions/bosons, did calculations for particle in a box, the Schrödinger model, and went just up to deriving the hydrogen atom. Nothing super fancy, but it was one heck of an experience!
- stackghost 2y agoBut did you win the Putnam?
- dang 2y agoFor those who don't know, stackghost is referencing this classic moment on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
- throwup238 2y agoI wonder how @sanj feels about their moment of fame (they’re still active on HN).
- dang 2y agoAs I've pointed out before, his concession at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35350 was both witty and graceful. It's great that he's still active here! and anyway he's done a ton of things that are a lot more important than that bit.
- throwup238 2y agoI hope that’s in the highlights :)
- GardenLetter27 2y agoIt's really interesting, in the UK I don't think we did (but I later studied Physics at university) - but we did have Further Maths which covered more advanced mathematics. Also your project is incredible btw, maybe look into robotics too.
- alias_neo 2y ago> in the UK I don't think we did Perhaps you didn't go to a high school quite like this one: https://exeter.edu/admissions/financial-aid/tuition-costs/ https://exeter.edu/admissions/financial-aid/tuition-costs/
- Izikiel43 2y ago> High school quantum theory > Nothing super fancy Yeah, that's college level stuff, it's pretty fancy for high school, you go to a nice place :)
- mattnewton 2y agoSome do- He thanks Phillips Exeter at the bottom of the project page, which is a very fancy private highschool, probably the best in the US.
- macNchz 2y agoI went to a peer school that had at least a couple of math teachers with PhDs—my friends at the time who took their classes were, if I recall, nationally competitive in math olympiads.
- govg 2y agoNot all high schools but the US has some schools which allow you to take very advanced material / even get a head start on your college credits.
- mschuster91 2y agoWe had a cursory introduction at least about 15 years ago in Germany, it's not that far off.
- rafram 2y agoIt's more possible than you'd think! The options are basically: - Go to a fancy private school like Phillips Exeter - Really luck out and get into a great public STEM magnet school - Homeschool and take private classes / have very smart parents
- rafram 2y agoOh, or: - Concurrently enroll at a community college (a really great option that I think every country should have)
- jogu 2y agoI tested out of high school and went to community college instead, one of the best decisions of my life.
- 2muchcoffeeman 2y agoCan't tell if this is sarcasm.
- rafram 2y agoThe community college option is available to anyone who’s willing to spend a couple evenings a week taking classes, so I don’t think it’s really that out of reach. Most countries don’t offer their high school students any opportunity to study material that advanced.
- 2muchcoffeeman 2y agoYour first 3 options are mostly “be born to the right parents”. So I couldn’t tell if your remark of “it’s more possible than you’d think!” Was serious or not. Hell I went to a really selective school. But even then, within that the top students, whom I was not one, got to do some extra stuff that would have greatly interested me and I would have been able to do. But my grades in humanities weren’t good enough to be one of the best.
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- TeMPOraL 2y agoIn the high school in Poland I attended, I lucked into being in a class with a university TA assigned as physics teacher, and he did manage to sneak in QM - more-less the same stuff as 'Hello9999901 listed in their reply. (He also taught us differentiation in the first semester, and basic integrals in the second, because as he said, you cannot learn physics properly without those tools. This annoyed the heck out of our math teacher; she ended up deciding that, if we're learning this anyway, we might as well learn it properly - and gave us a much heavier intro to calculus in the last months of the last year.)
- volemo 2y agoYou don’t study basics of QM in your high schools?
- apricot 2y agoThe USA has some great schools. OP goes to Phillips Exeter Academy, which is an exclusive private school that ranks among the best high schools in the country.
- chuckwfinley 2y agoThis is incredible work for anyone, let alone a high schooler. Seriously impressive! I hope this turns into something I can buy (maybe a diy kit), in the future!
- byran 2y agoThanks! I've been considering it (or enough detailed instructions to build one) since starting the project. I need to get a working model first though ;)
- ricardonunez 2y agoWe are going full circle, Woz will be proud.
- d3rockk 2y agoHOF HN post.