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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by lambdatronics »

aero-glide2 wrote: post #50

I'm good with aerospace related subjects. Python is my main language. Would love to contribute to any aerospace projects!

What's your take on the idea of on-orbit propellant gathering?[0] That is, the concept of a solar-electric propulsion sat in low orbit 80-120km, scooping up atmosphere, ejecting the nitrogen to compensate drag while storing the oxygen for a propellant depo. I tried to run some numbers on it and it seems like it might work, but maybe doesn't pay for itself fast enough to be worthwhile.

[0] http://hpepl.ae.gatech.edu/papers/ProgAerospace_Singh_V75_20...

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Post by eternityforest »

throwaway984393 wrote: post #227

I'd like to build some kind of shared resource where people publish completed generic projects. I find myself and others constantly reinventing the wheel, and it seems absolutely nuts; how are we ever going to progress if we keep wasting our time re-making what has already been made? Say there's some web framework, and lots of people write online shopping carts in it. Well, after the 1000th online shopping cart has b…

I'm working on a standard for easy drop-in home IoT drivers: https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices

Maybe you could go one level of meta up and instead of working on reusable components, work on reusable definitions for component interfaces.

Reuse is hard because you need a bunch of glue code. But if you had, like a standard for a toolbar, that knew how to find all the ToolbarAble objects, and the shopping cart icon just showed up, etc, things would get easier.

The shopping cart could know to look for all the payment requesting components declared in your Big Project File or whatever, and everything could stay modular ish?

GitHub is already the standard place to share generic projects.

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Post by eternityforest »

nicara wrote: post #148
capableweb wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not exactly sure why, but your website gives off a very "scammy" vibe, even tough your discuss other scams on it, and since you're seemingly here in earnest, seems valid. Maybe it's something about the color theme of the site (dark text on dark background, strange choices of colors etc) or the weird element structure, low quality photos. Not entirely sure why. Some things do read a bit weird on the website, but m…

Uhh, do take a look at the FAQ on his website ... Incels are probably the lesser evil when compared to bona fide racists?

Incels overlap with almost every "Bad opinion" you might imagine.

It doesn't just mean a person who can't get laid, it can also imply a real community with a shared culture that happens to include several different kinds of hate.

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Post by caseyslaught »

iev6 wrote: post #390
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…

This is a great usecase for ML! Where can I read more about this part of your work?

It's still pretty early days for this project so I haven't published anything yet. Hopefully soon!

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

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Post by me_me_mu_mu »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #175
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…

> MAMAA took me a second, but I guess it's Microsoft Apple Meta Amazon Alphabet now

Why don't we all just say Big Tech at this point? Literally could be any of those companies, and it doesn't matter beyond that.

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Post by caseyslaught »

shafyy wrote: post #71
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…

That sounds super interesting. Two questions: 1) Do you work remotely or are you in DRC? 2) What are some good ways to find job opportunities at the intersection of software engineering and wildlife conversation?

I spent two years working in DRC and have now moved to a remote position (based in the US). There are a few organizations I've worked with that do great work: Allen Institute for AI (EarthRanger), SmartParks.org and Conservation X Labs. There are surely others, but these offer products directly to national parks to improve their capabilities.

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Post by caseyslaught »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #304
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 ju…

You're definitely right that DRC wants to move up the value chain. Most raw materials are shipped out of the country for processing or smuggled to neighboring states (gold). However, the impact on wildlife is most certainly negative. The economic development impact is pretty unclear; DRC has shown time and again that mineral wealth is equitably distributed. Despite the jobs some new processing plants might afford, the profits from these operations will likely just line the pockets of those in charge.

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Post by caseyslaught »

petargyurov wrote: post #29
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…

> ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints Really cool stuff. I wonder if face detection is sufficient too? It has been proven to work for brown bears [0]. I have also been doing some open source work [1] to democratise object detection in this space but I haven't had the time to make improvements to the project in a while. * [0] http://bearresearch.org/ * [1] https://github.com/petargyurov/megadetector-gu…

In fact, we are basically doing facial detection based on cropped photos of gorillas around the nose. Thanks for the links! I'll be sure to check it out.

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Post by caseyslaught »

agumonkey wrote: post #276
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 ?

I can really only speak to conservation to Congo. One thing I've noticed is that conservation organizations in DRC take on a lot more responsibilities than just wildlife conservation. In Virunga National Park, for example, the park has built and operates a power utility to provide an alternative to charcoal. This is made up of four run-of-the-river hydroelectric plants, hundreds of kilometers of distribution lines (high and medium tension), and smart meters to connect customers. You can check out virunga.org to learn more!

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Post by caseyslaught »

Jloerakker wrote: post #87
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…

What ML framework or Lang you working in?

For now we are using Azure Custom Vision and have a working demo that achieves solid results. This seems sufficient for now. This will fit into a web app that uses React and Django.
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