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Post by crawfordcomeaux »

smoyer wrote: post #241
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #116

I'm trying to reclaim the word Santa from the toxic concept Santa has become (judging kids as naughty/nice is a perspective that's subjective and denies the very real need for acceptance, name calling is also a recognized form of abuse). I'm hoping to build a simple first version of www.santaisdeadlonglivesanta.net with a bit of text and a few pictures. It's meant to be the launch of the SANTANET, the network of peop…

Clearly you'll be getting a whole truckload of coal in your stocking!

Great! I'd rather hoard it and take it out of circulation anyway!

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Post by carapace »

derlvative wrote: post #125
carapace wrote: post #88

I have a sort of constellation of projects that fit together into an overarching project, and I'd love to have some other people interested or even collaborating on it. The goals are: - Make computers that easier to understand and use (than current systems.) - Make large flying machines to enable cheap and efficient mass transport of people and materials. (Like huge, kilometer-scale kite/blimps.) - Collect and recycl…

> Make computers that easier to understand This piqued my interest. I've talked with some older people who had computers in their home during childhood and they told me about tinkering with them and so on. Those were of course much simpler machined than we have today, and I ended up feeling like they had a more intimate relationship with the computer than their younger counterparts. How are you planning to accomplish…

That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.

> How are you planning to accomplish that?

Thanks for asking. Two major ways: on the hardware side I want to use small and simple systems. The raspberry pi is a little more complex than what I want. On the software side I have a simple GUI and macro language that is easy to learn and much much simpler and more elegant than current conventional UIs.

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Post by grepfru_it »

Lordarminius wrote: post #107
mettamage wrote: post #7

I am trading crypto, options and stocks based on news (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, Reddit) in manual and algorithmic fashion (it feels a lot like Factorio: manual first then automate it). I don’t believe in technical analysis, and I think the efficient market hypothesis is mostly true and love Fama’s work (and sometimes I am first!). The biggest reason I do this is because it feels like a PhD that can actually pay well. A…

I building an app that helps crypto investors (traders will be added later), discover good projects. There are many projects of varying quality and the great ones frequently go under the radar until they have done multiple X's. My thesis is that it would be a good idea to have a service that brings them to investor's attention early. I'd love to connect and get input/collaboration from people who know the space.

interesting idea. once upon a time, i wrote a social sentiment analyzer for various cryptocoins. it was actually pretty accurate and made me a few bucks. quality was not considered at all, but after recently stumbling across forums shilling ICP (and subsequent research of said cryptocoin) I think your idea is a worthy one.

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

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…

Hey! Curious what impact you've seen of the mining sector in the country but especially towards wildlife and economic development? I have heard the country wants to move up the value chain too, any feelings on whether doing something like processing (requires lots of skilled workers and 24/7 power) is actually realistic? Do you have any recommendations/travel guides for someone who would want to come visit and not just stay in the capitol?

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Post by mncharity »

implfuture wrote: post #182

I'm full-time exploring VR, video, and some hard tech problems, primarily using rust. A few things I'm poking around with: - VR molecule visualization in bevy (a la pymol) - real-time video production also in bevy - VR instruments Based in SF, always down to chat with people with similar interests!

> VR molecule visualization in bevy (a la pymol)

If you'd like to play with shaders, instead of using the common balls and sticks, you might try using electron densities. Something vaguely like this[1], which renders (with pedagogically unfortunate representation) densities from GPAW[2] with the python Mayavi renderer. With GPAW, one can precompute and compress densities for small molecules, allowing interactives with realistic dynamics and electron density. How young might atoms be introduced, and how well, if it were done with ipad pass-through AR, hand-tracked hands-on interaction, with physically realistic sticky fuzzy little balls?

[1] https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Engineering/Labs/Peterson/... [2] https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/gpaw/index.html

> VR instruments

Pity Exa[3] development seems to have stalled.

[3] https://store.steampowered.com/app/606920/EXA_The_Infinite_I...

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Post by empressplay »

turtleSpaces is a 3D Logo interpreter rapidly becoming a game engine (basically Roblox for Logo).

It is written in Go and has cross-platform binaries and a WASM version with a Javascript IDE. Mobile support is in the works.

We need people to help create content, market (user acquisition), test and code!

Check it out at https://turtlespaces.org and if you're interested in helping out e-mail help@turtlespaces.org

We're not certain yet what the forward plan is regarding monetization or exiting , turtleSpaces may stay free and become OSS. In the event that any profit was incurred it would be distributed amongst the contributors based on effort expended.

Thanks for reading my blurb!

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

thelastgallon wrote: post #100

This is a great idea! Can we do this monthly? I am having conversations with a few people to start Conduit Foundation: require all new construction to be EV ready. Have conduit installed whenever we build new parking. It will make it future proof to pull cable and install chargers later. This is a one time building code change with a continuous yield of new charge points. Hit me up if you have any interest.

Second on the monthly idea.

Will you be lobbying at the federal level of focused on state/local?

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

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…

Cool, I was just in Douala doing a project with Venture for Africa and before that did some research on the cold storage market in Kenya. What regions are you focused on? Other than the political importance of smallholder farmers, why focus on them? Why not help upskill medium to large farms that are more likely to have the capacity to use digital tools, technology, cut out middlemen, etc.?

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

samelawrence wrote: post #214

This is potentially off-topic, but I know that a lot of engineers also make music, so here goes. I run an electronic bass music label called [UUeird]( https://uueird.com/ ) which focuses on experimental dubstep, drum & bass, and halftime. We also have a sister label called [Swampstep]( https://swampstep.bandcamp.com/ ) that focuses on 140 BPM dubstep. We have over a quarter-milliion plays on Soundcloud, and can distr…

Super cool! I have 0 musical ability but I've always wanted to learn more about how the industry works. Do you have any recommendations on article/books/podcasts to really get the insider perspective?

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

dpleuler wrote: post #244

I'm the Director of Analytics at Toronto FC, and I'm always looking for people to collaborate on cool soccer projects with our awesome data. See [0] for some recent public work I've presented. ... [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lah0WSUcuE

Hey! I'm no longer there but I used to work with tribe.ai, an ml collective of folks. They're a business of course but sometimes people do fun projects together pro-bono or at costs. Want me to post in their slack?
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