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#31
A multithreaded CSV parser which figures out the types of each column. It's part of a larger project, which is basically Excel, but you use SQL since the sheets are put into an actual database. It's useful for when you need to clean up, manipulate, or query spreadsheets.

I know it's probably been done before, but the goal of the project is to familiarize myself with parsers, multithreading, making a C++ project in general, and the newer features of C++11/C++14.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

#32
A Donald Trump text to speech web app written in Rust:

http://jungle.horse

It needs a lot of work, but the basics are there. It uses unit selection on a large sample database as well as CMU's arpabet and a few other algorithms.

I'm looking to start work on a deep learning approach to improving the quality in January.

I'm going to spend the next month working on an interactive New Years laser display to project on a skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. I have a bunch of videos of some of the older work I did with lasers in undergrad:

http://lasers.io

I'm rewriting my engine in Rust now and plan to use four projectors to increase the drawing complexity / capability. It'll be interactive / online, so even those that aren't in Atlanta should be able to interact with it.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

#33
I'm working on an agile/kanban like web app. Similar to Trello, Sprintly, Jira etc. I feel like all of those are lacking something - Trello is trying to be too generic, and Sprintly feels a bit "busy" and not as simple as I think it can be done. JIRA is a whole other story of bloat. I'm mostly doing it to actually get to work on a site that's built using Phoenix and Elixir and so far that's been an absolute blast! Decided to throw some SPA in there as well, as that would give me a clear separation of backend and view logic. So decided to take a look at Vue.js, and that has really blown me away as well. So simple to get started with, and felt productive right away! Really having fun doing this :)

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post #18

A Twitter bot called @AmazonArtReview that tries to find funny 1-star reviews of media on Amazon. It's using some crude machine learning and just a fun side project. Finding humor's tough! I've read some papers on finding humor in reviews, e.g. https://cs224d.stanford.edu/reports/OliveiraLuke.pdf . That's been helpful. It'd be great if I could use the Yelp review set for finding humor as they did but the humor doesn'…

What about the number of upvotes for 1-star reviews?

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

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post #32

A Donald Trump text to speech web app written in Rust: http://jungle.horse It needs a lot of work, but the basics are there. It uses unit selection on a large sample database as well as CMU's arpabet and a few other algorithms. I'm looking to start work on a deep learning approach to improving the quality in January. I'm going to spend the next month working on an interactive New Years laser display to project on a s…

Don't want that Donald Trump simulator to fall into the wrong hands.

http://jungle.horse/#%7B%22s%22%3A%22hello.%20i%20am%20the%2...

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

#40
I'm learning Japanese and wasn't happy with Anki's interface (+ I wanted to learn about Spaced Repetition), so I decided to do Anchor: http://francisco.io/japanese/

Now I'm cleaning it up a bit to allow to easily switch from courses and considering making it into an app. I also want to make a couple of tweaks to the SR algorithm, but it works great already for my needs.

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