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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by doctor_eval » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:25 PM UTC

RivieraKid wrote: post #89

caseyslaught wrote: post #12

I work for a national park in the Democratic Republic on the Congo as a tech lead. Some of the things we are doing: LoRaWAN for tracking and emergency response, ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints, and long-range drones for mapping and surveillance, and a management web app. If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collab…

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Gross generalisations like “the people there lack humanity” make me very sad. I don’t know anything about the DRC and have never even visited Africa, but I bet the majority of people there care mostly about having good shelter, safety, enough food to eat, and looking after their kids the best they can.

Like everyone else in the world.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by tdekken » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:28 PM UTC

nhatcher wrote: post #246

I would like to build a small CAS (Computer Algebra System) that is usable from the web. It could be used in education to plot functions, solve equations (algebraic, ODEs, PDEs, ..), work with matrices, complex numbers, number theory, you name it. We need to come up with a decent DSL. My idea is that we would write the core of the app in Rust (so that it could be used in the web as wasm or locally). They key features…

Hi nhatcher,

You might be interested in https://github.com/google/mathsteps which is a CAS designed to automatically explain step-by-step a problem so that humans can learn from it. There is a presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnBae40DfjE) and a post discussing the system if you are interested (https://blog.socratic.org/stepping-into-math-open-sourcing-o...).

p.s. My comment from this thread also might be of interest to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29761667

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by regnull » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:29 PM UTC

travisjungroth wrote: post #217

regnull wrote: post #43

I'm working on a decentralized identity-based communications project. Think of this as an email (or instant messaging, social network, etc.) where your "account" is yours forever and cannot be taken away. We have email part functioning and there are some real users. At this point, I'm working on the decentralization part, where the identity registry will be put on a blockchain (likely custom Ethereum-based blockchain…

I read through a few pages and didn't get the most important question I have answered. How does this system avoid my identity being the private key itself, a thing which can be taken away?

Your identity is your private key. It can't be taken away in a way how your Google account can be just disabled one day. We also have a way to retain control if your private key gets compromised - you can have a parent key, which can then be used to disable your compromised key and re-assign your name to another key. Since you never use your parent key (presumably kept in a safe offline place), it gives you some degree of protection.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by ajahso4 » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:30 PM UTC

Looking for experts in product management and marketing to grow https://researchapp.co. It's a website experiment as-a-service product that enables web products owners to test their hypothesis about feature performance and user interaction with them using a simple script (like Google tag insert)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by kzuberi » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

koeng wrote: post #52

We’re building a Golang library designing DNA. Most synthetic biology tools are essentially crap Python scripts - we’re looking at building maintainable tools for the next 10-20 years https://github.com/timothystiles/poly

The choice of Go for this is interesting. Having worked with Python & BioPython for bioinformatics problems I've found that there was a good deal of complexity around eking out performance (Cython, C++ extensions, Numba and so on) and also around distributing the tools (e.g. conda packaging). I've been wondering if Go would provide a reasonable middle ground in performance and ease of use between Python and C++ here. I'm not actually convinced yet but think its worth exploring. Noticed there's a BioGo project that's been around for a while, not sure of its uptake. Probably figuring out how well Go works for this domain will be a hobby project for me this year.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:38 PM UTC

caseyslaught wrote: post #12

I work for a national park in the Democratic Republic on the Congo as a tech lead. Some of the things we are doing: LoRaWAN for tracking and emergency response, ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints, and long-range drones for mapping and surveillance, and a management web app. If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collab…

Pretty awesome. Do you know more about other projects like this or what new ideas are going on in DRC ?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:41 PM UTC

zehnfischer wrote: post #222

My project supports African founders to take their start-up to the next level. All the companies are in the agricultural and food sector, have a launched product and first revenue. By giving them customized support, we aim to make them invest them ready. The idea behind the whole project is that start-ups can solve real world issues. In our case, make small scale farming, value chains etc. more effective and thus inc…

any website to read more ?

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by kinow » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:41 PM UTC

Gluber wrote: post #236

Senior Engineer, semi retired. Working in my spare time on various side projects, but i would really enjoy some input of which project to focus on, collaborate on and potentially incorporate. 1. Digital Assistant for on premise installation, already built that as lead architect for a customer of mine but want to take the concept fruther ( think star trek TNG computer ) 2. Continous integration platform for ML Models,…

I think for your second item you should find a lot of things if you search "MlOps"

- https://twitter.com/hashtag/mlops

I co-mentored GSoC a couple years ago to write a Jenkins Machine Learning plug-in that tries to integrate Jenkins CI & Jupyter/Zeppelin. At that time there were already tools & standards appearing.

If I recall correctly, Netflix had some blog posts about their ML pipeline. In one of them I remember reading about their workflow tools, some that could be used for CI/CD style development of ML models.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:41 PM UTC

krisrm wrote: post #133

I don't have anything to contribute or collaborate on, but just wanted to thank OP for the excellent idea, this looks like it really hit upon a community need.

Agreed.

I basically have all the collaborators that I need, for the projects that I'm working on, but I think that it is a great thing, to encourage altruistic development.

It is my experience, that free work should be as good as (or better than) paid work. This is code quality, executable quality, documentation and support quality, user experience quality, etc.

I have found that many altruistic projects have great heart, but can sometimes fall short, in quality. Maybe as a result (or maybe it's a cause), they are often not taken seriously by the people that could most use them, and this can also make it difficult to get folks to take high-quality work seriously (I have a lot of experience with that).

When looking for collaborators. Tecchies often seek out engineers, but maybe they are better served, seeking out advocates, artists/designers, writers, testers and integrators.

In my experience, recruiting evangelists in the user community is incredibly valuable (and difficult; especially if "people skills" aren't our top talents).

We can also do damage, by pissing off these folks (I have done that). Free/Open/Altruistic projects can often be rather fragile, as motivation and engagement are the currencies we use. These are easy to dismiss or denigrate, when we are used to the traditional motivators of paid work.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by kampsduac » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 10:44 PM UTC

tdekken wrote: post #164

I am a former principal software engineer at a MAMAA company turned independent educational researcher. My primary interest is in deliberate practice and how to use spaced repetition (i.e., Anki) to develop expertise. I have three primary areas that I am working on and would love to find serious collaborators: 1) I am building high-quality content for math, English language arts, chess, etc. (see [0] for a good expla…

At Quizlet, we are working on problems in this space.

https://quizlet.com/features/how-quizlet-works

I'm an engineer on the step-by-step Explanations team - if interested in learning more, shoot me an email (scott @ quizlet.com) and we can chat! Maybe this violates the objective of the OP - but it sounds like we'd have fun collaborating. We'd just be getting paid by the same company to do so.