working on my startup for LED lighting products
http://www.lellan.com
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#122computer vision JSON webservice - you supply image, it returns tags/keywords super fast. Spare time project. Hoping to build a freemium model out of it for image libraries to use. Happy to speak to anyone with any kind of CV / object detection knowhow.
How far have you gotten on this? I didn't know that level of CV technology existed to tag arbitrary images. It sounds like a really cool project.
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#123I'm working on text classification. I have a decent classifier that's especially suited to author identification. I can think of a few good uses for it; the first one I'm trying to commercialize is academic anti-cheating.
I ran a site called that crawled Gnutella/Limewire for student papers. That's something you could consider adding to your database and quite easy since the Limewire code and RFC are opensource. You could write your own client or modify Limewire.
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#124Currently working on setting up a high-quality content providing company. The business plan is just about complete but this is really just a work of love and the result of my general hate of content farms (yes I have a day job).
Other than that I've been slowly putting together a site about bad dates for a friend of mine, maybe someone here will enjoy it enough to add a story ;) http://www.runawayscreaming.com
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#125Camelot! http://www.python-camelot.com/
This looks a lot better than wxWidgets. Is there a clear advantage?
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#126My Django hosting service. I looked at Heroku and thought, "I want that for Python." Yesterday, I got most of the http request path finished. There is some node.js work left, and I still need to do some more work on Varnish. I'm hoping to get to the Postgresql stuff next week, then on to the website and API...
In a discussion at PyOhio this past weekend, a lot of people were mentioning how they wanted a Heroku-like service for Python.
Is PiCloud unattractive compared to Heroku?
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#127I'm working on text classification. I have a decent classifier that's especially suited to author identification. I can think of a few good uses for it; the first one I'm trying to commercialize is academic anti-cheating.
That sounds fascinating. How did you come up with the algorithms to use?
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#128My Django hosting service. I looked at Heroku and thought, "I want that for Python." Yesterday, I got most of the http request path finished. There is some node.js work left, and I still need to do some more work on Varnish. I'm hoping to get to the Postgresql stuff next week, then on to the website and API...
Funny, I thought the same thing but with JavaScript instead.
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#129http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/terse.html A programming language where syntax and semantics are manipulable at run-time as well as compile-time and where you can define grammars in-line and use them immediately. I also intend to integrate the concepts of pattern calculus - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695 - to permit extreme levels of flexibility in the language. It's a huge project and I'm right at the start of…
I see you switched from racket to Go. Care to talk about your experiences?
I've been playing with making the implementation of arc more timeless (e.g. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12057, http://arclanguage.org/item?id=11864)
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#130I'm working on text classification. I have a decent classifier that's especially suited to author identification. I can think of a few good uses for it; the first one I'm trying to commercialize is academic anti-cheating.
That sounds fascinating. How did you come up with the algorithms to use?
I experimented with existing text classification algorithms for an author identification project I was doing for fun. What I'm currently using is somewhere between KNN and SVM, but I'm not done tweaking it yet. I'm also working on boosting results using different feature sets.