I'm working on an online reading group centered around the classics where people can see each other's notes and highlights and start conversations within the book.
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#22I'm trying to create a ML model which can detect if my dog is in pain just by looking at its face. Maybe, I'll create an app for it too if it works well.
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#23I’ve been working on a job board for startup jobs[0]; if you want to work at a startup, there are more companies than ever, but it’s also harder than ever to know which one to work for. I track number of job posts over time so jobseekers have some data about how much a startup is growing, and I’m hoping to add more types of data as time goes on. Why should investors be the ones who get all the data about startups? Job seekers should, too!
It’s been fun to work on, plus it’s a challenging technical problem: in order to scrape job posts for many companies, you need to make a very generic scraper since they all have different formats and you can’t rely on HTML structure.
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#24I’m learning Vue. For both professional and hobby usage. So far, the switch from jQuery, thrills me.
Welcome! Vue is such a pleasure to work with! Love how you can drop it into a page and add JS interactivity inline OR create large scale component based apps!
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#25I've started upping my woodworking skills. For years I would cut and screw together boards cut from construction grade lumber (cheap 2x4 pine for example). I now work with at minimum Poplar (still a bit on the soft side, but works much like hardwood), Oak, Maple, basically what I can get in the premium lumber section at a big box store, and did some alignment on my compound miter saw. What a difference that makes, have cranked out a hand full of desks and other furniture that is getting better with each piece I made.
Also got into 3D printing, using OpenScad for creating the models. It is almost magical when you can think of something that you want, but they don't make, yet you can make it yourself (different brackets for holding accessories on a bicycle, clips that holds a plexiglass screen in front of the TV to protect it, etc, things like that).
These are a couple of ideas of things that a technical mind can work on (woodworking and 3d printing both require some amount of precision and design). Keeps things interesting.
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#26I'm trying to create a ML model which can detect if my dog is in pain just by looking at its face. Maybe, I'll create an app for it too if it works well.
How are you planning on collecting data? Seems hard to be a detached trial aid when your dog is in pain…
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#27I'm working on a no-code platform [1]. Given that this space is getting crowded I am starting to investigate adding the ability to create NFTs and make the web3 space more friendly to non-developers which is exciting! (at least to me! :-)
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#28I'm researching how we can use technology to improve the way we learn and think. I'm currently exploring how AI/Natural Language Processing can automatically organize personal knowledge and notes by tagging and linking ideas / content together [0], removing the friction of organization to help you find new connections and ideas. If you're interested in this domain, I'd love to talk to you! [0]: https://github.com/Uza…
Couple months ago karlicoss the developer of Promnesia posted in the collab post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29760122
I made a discord server in response (we mostly idle) to discuss knowledge management tooling
Awesome Knowledge Management https://discord.gg/XPNeDSQE2j
Would love to continue to chat about existing tools and new ideas in this space!
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#29I am training a reinforcement learning agent to defeat bosses in one of my favorite video games (dark souls 3) https://youtube.com/channel/UCmoHCPYZviZ0iQ_t_j8cfaw
Holy! I've longn been interested in working on a side-project like this. How do you interface with the game? Do they have exposed APIs? I'd love to know more! Please give us some more details/Github/Bitbucket/blogposts!
I made a writeup on reddit about a year ago. I have changed a few things since then and tried it out on new bosses as well. I have considered making a video explaining it. Here is the writeup though:
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/lml95...
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#30I'm working on a better source-control, starting with game developers.