Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by michaelfairley » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 9:40 PM UTC

scorchin wrote: post #81

michaelfairley wrote: post #50

A lightweight Python implementation of MapReduce.

Are you planning on making this open-source or writing about this anywhere? Would especially love to follow your progress if you have a blog.

It will be open source (MIT license). I'll definitely post to HN when I make the initial release (should be within the next month).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by _cbsz » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 9:42 PM UTC

tectonic wrote: post #80

tsiki wrote: post #75

Working on an general game playing artificial intelligence. Nothing grand, I just have a few ideas I'd like to test in real life. It can theoretically play any game, but it's interesting to see if it's actually feasible, since it's turning out to be quite a resource hog.

Can you tell me any more about this?

I bet it involves A*.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by sunkencity » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 9:44 PM UTC

koenbok wrote: post #32

Making our e-commerce platform http://www.enstore.com available to everyone. With a nice frontend built in Cappuccino/Atlas.

looks awesome! impressive.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by mtrichardson » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 9:54 PM UTC

Just sold Bac'n ( http://blog.bacn.com/2010/01/bacn-acquired-by-baconfreak-com... ).

Focusing 100% on Urban Airship ( http://urbanairship.com/ ) now, which is fantastic fun.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by silentbicycle » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 9:55 PM UTC

I'm working on a distributed / fault tolerant network filesystem inspired by plan9's Venti. Several of its internals (code for chunking data with rolling hashes, a purely functional ADT for non-redundant storing of large strings, and a coroutining / non-blocking server framework for Lua, somewhat like Python's Twisted and Ruby's EventMachine) have been broken out into their own libraries. I'm almost done with the first two and am working on the third, but its design is being driven by the filesystem. They'll all be released at once when they're done, no time frame yet though. Probably MIT license.

I've also been working an a utility to locate repeated groups of data (particularly geared towards scanning for likely copy-and-pasted code), but that's been put on the back burner due to the above project and lack of free time.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by TheSOB88 » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 10:05 PM UTC

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #134

A wave killer using node.js, xmpp and websockets

How can you kill Wave when nobody knows what it's supposed to be used for?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Caligula » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 10:08 PM UTC

abstractbill wrote: post #127

Caligula wrote: post #103

Working on web based speech recognition. Have a demo at http://www.speechle.com but its buggy. I learned a lot making it but it gets frustrating at times. Decoding is done using Sphinx.

Flash's "allow" button is hidden for me (FF3.5, OS X): http://abstractnonsense.com/Screen_shot_2010-01-05_at_1.11.1...

Thank you. I was not aware that could happen. Can you please try again?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by blhack » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 10:11 PM UTC

http://www.gibsonandlily.com

It is a place for me to play with python :).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by michael_nielsen » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 10:18 PM UTC

A book called "Reinventing Discovery", about how collective intelligence is transforming science. The manuscript is due to the publisher (Princeton University Press) in a couple of months.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tsiki » Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 10:18 PM UTC

tectonic wrote: post #80

tsiki wrote: post #75

Working on an general game playing artificial intelligence. Nothing grand, I just have a few ideas I'd like to test in real life. It can theoretically play any game, but it's interesting to see if it's actually feasible, since it's turning out to be quite a resource hog.

Can you tell me any more about this?

I guess my explanation sounded more awesome than it actually is - general game playing has been around for a while now (see for example games.stanford.edu and the wikipedia article on general game playing), mine's a stab at it with some homegrown techniques, largely out of personal interest. As I said, I have no idea if my techniques are feasible or actually work yet, but if they do (and I have the time), the general game playing competition at the 2010 AAAI conference isn't out of the question.