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Re: Ask HN: What personal projects/goals are people working on for this summer?

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Post by stc043 »

tritogeneia wrote: post #3

Learning Python, Django, and JavaScript for a project; goal is to have a prototype by the beginning of July. Stuff to learn: numerical linear algebra, dictionary learning, Judea Pearl's Causality Research: diffusion geometry for databases (?)

Learning Django and Javascript and probably PostgreSQL.

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Post by swhopkins »

cj wrote: post #10
swhopkins wrote: post #4

I started my summer a bit early: In Feb. I quit my job and moved to Guatemala. Here I'm spending the mornings learning Spanish, and the afternoons playing with Rails and Javascript. After I finish my current project, I'd like to look some into iOS development.

What brought you to Guatemala?

Cheap spanish classes (cheap everything, really) and nice weather. The internet could be a little faster, but I guess you can't have it all.

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Post by techdemic »

benreyes wrote: post #8

Interesting question, techdemic. Just to mention for questions like this on HackerNews it's often common to prepend the post with 'Ask HN:' in the title. ---- As for what I'm working on in the summer. If everything goes to plan. - A directory of startup tools - Brush up on my probability and statistics with the help of the Khan Academy and some text books. - Then explore machine learning. Hope to go through the Stanf…

Thanks for the tip Ben, regarding questions for the HN community; it's been noted.

I'm interested in learning more about this "directory of startup tools" you mentioned. Will it be a self-compiled directory, or something more collaborative in nature?

Re: Ask HN: What personal projects/goals are people working on for this summer?

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Post by czheng »

I've been working on an idea for a data-driven, rule-based web templating engine semi-inspired by CSS and XSLT. Been doing lots of research and working on a spec. Maybe by end of summer I'll have found some collaborators.

Aside from that, trying to learn Python.

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Post by czheng »

swhopkins wrote: post #14
cj wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What brought you to Guatemala?

Cheap spanish classes (cheap everything, really) and nice weather. The internet could be a little faster, but I guess you can't have it all.

If you get a free weekend, and have an extra $75 or so, you should spend a couple of nights at Casa del Mundo on Lake Atitlán. Amazing.

Re: Ask HN: What personal projects/goals are people working on for this summer?

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Post by benreyes »

techdemic wrote: post #15
benreyes wrote: post #8

Interesting question, techdemic. Just to mention for questions like this on HackerNews it's often common to prepend the post with 'Ask HN:' in the title. ---- As for what I'm working on in the summer. If everything goes to plan. - A directory of startup tools - Brush up on my probability and statistics with the help of the Khan Academy and some text books. - Then explore machine learning. Hope to go through the Stanf…

Thanks for the tip Ben, regarding questions for the HN community; it's been noted. I'm interested in learning more about this "directory of startup tools" you mentioned. Will it be a self-compiled directory, or something more collaborative in nature?

No worries, happy to help. What I'm working on right now is a manually curated directory for the MVP and hopefully I can get it to ramen profitability during that phase.

Then will spend some time to work out the algorithms to do the automatic curation of the services & tools. Hence my interest into exploring probably & statistics modelling / machine learning further.

I'll send you an email.

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