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Post by Everhusk »

If anyone is interested in trying to help solve "the social dilemma" (www.thesocialdilemma.com), collaborators is the right type of people we're looking to work with. The project has just been announced and you can learn more here:

https://social.network

We won't compete against facebook and other big tech compensation because we aren't planning to exploit peoples data, democratic systems, etc. for money. But if you are a talented engineer who wants to apply their skills to something bigger than making money, consider collaborating with us.

guardians@earthda.org

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

leafario2 wrote: post #10

If you are into autonomous sailboats, robotics, rust, or combinations thereof, let me know :)

Awesome! Are you doing anything that has loitering capabilities in an area? Something that's always bothered me is illegal fishing off the coasts of poor countries that can't afford to effectively monitor their own waters and I have been thinking about ways to tackle this (e.g. a system of buoys with sensor arrays that ping the coast guard/navy if they detect a ship without their AIS system on).

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

josh_carterPDX wrote: post #207

I currently work for a startup program in Washington state and it's my third program. One of the biggest challenges we have (that I am sure is not unique to our program) is that we have a large community of mentors as well as founders and when we want to connect our mentors and founders together it takes a manual email introduction. I've also put together an Airtable where founders can connect with our mentors, but a…

Would https://covalent.live/ do the trick?

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Post by MWil »

Seeking motivated cofounder(s) interested in legaltech/edtech/govtech.

I am a domain expert in Veterans Disability law, 1.7mil in revenue (me and 3 paralegals) in 2020, formed Veteran Disability boutique firm in 2021.

Looking to build the "Clio for Veterans Disability Claims." Although this is a single, niche area of administrative law, there are more than enough customers on an individual (veterans with claims, accredited agents, accredited attorneys [solos and firms] and an institutional basis (veteran service organizations, law school clinics, non-profits).

The Clio-and-all-others approach of building out generic "law practice" software that you modify for your practice area does not work well for this area of the law IMO. This will not have features that would not serve this area well and thus will not charge per user accordingly.

I routinely have to maintain a legal strategy going back 50-60 years for a single claim. Clients routinely have 2-3 claims active at any given time. Claims routinely include 8-11 different medical conditions, each of which having to meet their own pre-requisites and burdens. Claims routinely branch onto different "paths" within the administrative scheme.

I want to empower veterans and advocates against the kafka-esque system of the VA.

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Post by Gluber »

kinow wrote: post #278
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 r…

I think i should elaborate a bit more. ( i am pharaphrasing what i've seen/built for customers working on real world ML projects )

Let assume for a task of building a vision model like tesla for autonomous driving, basically taking camera feeds and turning them into 3D geometry.

For that you have to:

1. Collect Data

2. Curate Data

3. Augment Data ( i don't mean classic image augmentation techniques, but for example connecting a simulator to provide artifical data samples )

4. Label data

5. Define your model / or figure out a good model with presets/auto ml techniques

6. Train it at scale

7. Analyze/Test your model, think unit testing but for ml

8. Optimize it to run on edge hardware

9. Deploy it and distribute

All of that with proper A/B Testing, different models, and continously improving/tweaking and adding data.

THere are literally 100s of tools in that space, covering one or multiple steps. But nothing that integrates the whole. It still has an incredible lead time / engineering effort to setup / build a pipeline like that and run it at scale, handle the workflows behind it and also be able to run on premise ( using cloud resources for a lot of that is both a no go for many large companies due to security concerns and cost )

Some cloud SAAS software comes quite close e.g Google Vertex Ai, Sagemaker etc.. But they still fall very short for a production pipeline.

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Post by loceng »

onassar wrote: post #113

I run a side (open source) project called Iconduck ( https://iconduck.com ). It collects and makes open source icons, illustrations and graphics available to download in various formats. The goal is to collect sets from across the web (atm, mainly Gumroad and GitHub) that have open source licenses that allow for them to be available on a central site. I then use a service called Typesense ( https://typesense.org/ ) t…

Are you aware of thenounproject.com? It looks like your project is branching out into more than icons? Edit to add: just visited thenounproject.com again and looks like they added photos to their database.

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Post by onassar »

loceng wrote: post #316
onassar wrote: post #113

I run a side (open source) project called Iconduck ( https://iconduck.com ). It collects and makes open source icons, illustrations and graphics available to download in various formats. The goal is to collect sets from across the web (atm, mainly Gumroad and GitHub) that have open source licenses that allow for them to be available on a central site. I then use a service called Typesense ( https://typesense.org/ ) t…

Are you aware of thenounproject.com? It looks like your project is branching out into more than icons? Edit to add: just visited thenounproject.com again and looks like they added photos to their database.

Yep I know of them. They're gr8. We're just positioned differently (I'm much more interested in having everything be open source).

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Post by phyalow »

vander_elst wrote: post #202
blparker wrote: post #170

Don’t have an active project at the moment, but would be interested in brainstorming potential ideas. Have experience throughout the stack and interested in areas of ML, AI, and Crypto. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in potentially collaborating.

Hi, I have been working on a trading bot for crypto in rust for the last ~18 months. The agent and the infrastructure (collecting and preprocessing data) are up and running. I have been collecting and cleaning TBs (yes TBs) of data for ~1 year now. However, I have way too little knowledge in ML/AI and it is very hard to fill the gap. I am looking for someone that can help me in that area and improve the bot to levera…

Cant see an email address on your public profile. Interested in talking.

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Post by jrmiii »

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.

I also think monthly, or at the very least quarterly is a good idea. I suspect, the half-life of a post like this that doesn't find you at the right time would make it hard to find collaboration opportunities if on an annual cadence.

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Post by loceng »

karlicoss wrote: post #67

I'm working on tools/projects to unify, access, interact and use my personal data for quantified self, knowledge management, etc. A couple of examples: - https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI#readme - https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme Would very much love to discuss it with other people, collaborate etc.

I was just going to say you should lookup this - https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html - a page I bookmarked and have kept at the back of my head, and turns out it's you!

I have a strong personal need for such a system. I have severe chronic pain that severely disrupts my executive function, and so it's hard to mentally self-direct - so having a visual map of data interconnectivity, where in part I could set view layers based on priority (hide or show different data depending on say if viewing "holistic view" vs. a "project" that's arguably data that's tagged with a project name, etc.

I'm also wanting to write a book on my journal with health and healing, among other things system-society wide that influence health - and allowed my situation to exist and dis-ease progression to occur - and so having a singular system for me to access things like my bookmarks, notes in Notes app, emails filtered based on tags, my comments on HN/Reddit/etc. would really help in allowing me to start to organize and compile different data; perhaps a way to add a non-impacting link between different pieces of data, e.g. say there's a topic in the book related to food and/or water fasting - I could start to interlink all of that content first with links, then another step in the process perhaps with version control integrated - so I can archive a previous/unedited version, keeping the polished/updated version (or multiple data files amalgamated) but linking to their sources/prior versions, etc.

Your project could easily fit into a broader project/effort of mine, though I've not been able to execute on it yet - I've been able to plan, develop the vision, and done surface level things so far only. I have a surgery January 11th that may reduce my pain by 50%+ and hopefully my executive function returns at least some; my pain situation is more than just relating to this surgery, another major source of pain, arguably the primary source, doesn't have a treatment yet - not clinically available anyhow. After the surgery I'd love to chat and share what I'm doing with my projects and feel out what possibilities may exist.

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