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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by solarmist »

danielvaughn wrote: post #307

I've been working on a programming language for UI designers. To put it simply, I think the trend towards no-code/low-code is misguided. The assumption behind these products is that code is slow, difficult, and expensive. I disagree - I think that "code" is merely a formalized written expression of what you want. It's actually the most efficient, easiest, and cheapest means to solving digital problems. I believe anyo…

I love the idea of this, but I just learned about xstate.js.

It was a eureka moment for me. Why was UI design such a mess? It’s because the UI vocabulary came from publishing and graphic design, but UIs are not static and describing them in that way will always fall short.

I’m convinced that any UI language needs to incorporate a visual state diagram editor to really make a dent in the space.

UIs are not fixed objects, but responsive object reacting to user intent.

Does your language incorporate anything like this?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

I'm coming up with ways to stay on task and avoid distractions. So, I have this:

1. Make a list of tasks you need to do.

2. Take on one task and complete it.

3. Take On Me was a cool song.

4. Oh, I should go watch the video

...

I'm not doing very well at it.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by westcort »

I made a voice simulator of my own voice (https://locserendipity.com/sim/voice.html) by recording individual phonemes. My goal was to create the smallest possible phonemes that can be concatenated into a wav file. Ultimately, I want to be able to export a wav file or mp3 file as base64 text enabling the largest amount of voice data to be stored on a CD. Does anyone have further advice on how to achieve this?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by czhu12 »

I’ve been trying to build a way to allow for more scripts to get automatically turned into UIs. Then can be built, shared and run in web browsers. It’s amazing how far browsers have come especially with the addition of ES modules.

Its basically a JavaScript DSL to create little web apps with reactive, understandable code. For example:

const age = input(“what is your age?”)

text(“your age is” + age)

Would automatically create a UI around this.

Can see it at https://trytoolkit.com

I’ve been surprised how much I’ve personally been getting value from this little app.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

epolanski wrote: post #313
mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #145

Trying to teach myself linear algebra and deep learning so I can apply it to some interesting ideas I have about making current chess AI much stronger. I don't want to reveal too much since I don't want some Stockfish dev to steal my idea but I'm interested in tips and resources on linear algebra. I always hated matrices... Interspersed with that I have a huge amount of stuff to implement for my project still(search…

I think you're naive if you think decades of chess engines development are going to be disrupted by you picking up linear algebra. I also applaud and envy the craziness.

It's not like I'm abandoning the decades of development. I'm starting with a fork of Stockfish 10(pre-NN, and using too recent a version could make it hard to submit it to TCEC due to rules about similarity to existing participants.) and I've been digging into the code and algorithms therein for months now. My approach is an extension of existing techniques.

I actually started with a greenfield implementation, but found myself reading more and more Stockfish code anyway as it's an excellent reference for the state of the art. And I realised it was far too much work to reimplement all this stuff, so that's why I switched to a fork.

And I wanna learn linalg and deep learning anyway.

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Post by tdekken »

germinalphrase wrote: post #347
tdekken wrote: post #336

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can so relate :). I left my position as a principal engineer at a FAANG/MAAMA/etc. company in 2020 with a general direction to try to make a difference in the education space. It has been maddening trying to live up to my own expectations. Good luck! p.s. In the off chance that you are interested in the education space, you might find my post in this thread of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32870101

Thank you for the comment, and I commend your mission. Do you have a website or more detailed information about your intended approach? My email is in profile if you would prefer to share privately.

I have built a proof of concept that demonstrates the core mechanics of the approach. The challenge is that my background is in backend development, and so the UX doesn't make a good first impression. I am building a more polished demo, but it is slow going given my lack of frontend expertise.

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Post by provability »

intrasight wrote: post #274
provability wrote: post #237

To reduce the adverse effects of fake evidence (eventually called deepfake), off and on since 2004, and especially since ten years ago, I've been thinking up, NOT DETECTION methods, but prospective, pro-active methods to instrument a data stream, to increase the odds that video, audio, or other time-series data (including e.g. scientific experimental data) eventually can be proven to have been created from real life…

I too have been contemplating architectural solutions to this problem for about a year. I've probably posted about it on HN at some point. I'll email you - or try to ;)

Great! Please do email me.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

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Post by provability »

O__________O wrote: post #258
provability wrote: post #237

To reduce the adverse effects of fake evidence (eventually called deepfake), off and on since 2004, and especially since ten years ago, I've been thinking up, NOT DETECTION methods, but prospective, pro-active methods to instrument a data stream, to increase the odds that video, audio, or other time-series data (including e.g. scientific experimental data) eventually can be proven to have been created from real life…

To me, being able to trace the province of content is much more dangerous than deep fakes, since such systems have the potential to become wide spread, unavoidable, and constrain free exchange of information.

I agree! I've put some thought into how to keep the power decentralized -- and ideally to make it more so than the status quo. I think the techniques are compatible with that. I don't like the emphasis of Truepic et all on identifying which individual or which device recorded the evidence. I mean, yes, many in the West would like to know that a video clip is just as a specific, named, respected photojournalist filmed it, but imagine what would happen under a despot who doesn't respect press freedom.
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