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

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Post by tmamic »

abathur wrote: post #623
tmamic wrote: post #500

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One of the reasons I keep working on this project is that I am in a similar situation. When I started researching this topic, I did a test. I made x-rays, and my friend dentist took dental photographs of me. Then I had sent these over email to 7 independent dentists. Recommendations I got where as diverse as the ones from "How dentists rip us off" article by Readers Digest. I haven't done any of recommendations excep…

What's your timeline like?

I am not sure I understand your question. Could you be more specific?

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

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Post by a_diplomat »

sgtnoodle wrote: post #643
a_diplomat wrote: post #459

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I've been to your airfield in Rwanda! It's such a great company.

I'm jealous, I haven't actually made it out myself yet! I've got a little baby to come home to. It's been a very supportive company in terms of work/life balance as well.

Totally understand. I have to say that watching the drones getting captured when landing is one of the most futuristic things I've seen. You guys have done some great things in Rwanda - I lived there over the past 4 years, so I have firsthand knowledge.

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

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Post by p0sixlang »

cedricium wrote: post #215
canada_dry wrote: post #192

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Playing devils advocate, I'd really prefer this kind of functionality as a separate browser add-on - i.e. unlinked to my reddit signon. For privacy you needn't require the reddit ID of your users. Simply that they want to save something from reddit to their tryunearth.com account.

I appreciate you raising this concern, I honestly never thought about that. > Simply that they want to save something from reddit to their tryunearth.com account When you say that, I envision the extension overriding or extending Reddit's save button functionality by making an API call to the unearth backend. Is that kinda what you had in mind?

Exactly. Have an initial import functionality in onboarding, where the user could somehow import their currently saved content. Thereafter you could have an extension that implements a 'save to unearth' button cleanly into reddit's UI.

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

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Post by belzebalex »

sgtnoodle wrote: post #644
belzebalex wrote: post #598

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I'm looking for an internship in July-August. I've built a lot of model planes younger and what you're doing seems amazing! Is there any way we could talk further?

The best way to get into the system is by submitting your resume on the careers page. I'll give a heads-up to the recruiting team to look out for any submissions mentioning hacker news.

Thank you! I'll do it by this week end.

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

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Post by vincvinc »

tjansen wrote: post #357

I am working on a natural language parser using symbolic AI (no machine learning...). It's working a bit like a multi-pass parser for programming languages, but with the ability to handle multiple ambiguous meanings of a sentence at the same time. An English sentence is translated into an intermediate representation. Or rather, depending on the complexity, hundreds or thousands of intermediate representations for the…

Good idea! I've worked before on trying to come up with a good intermediate representation for these kind of purposes... Linguistic theories are only partially helpful here. Want to have a chat? I really think there is a future in this approach.

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

a_diplomat wrote: post #458

I'm a diplomat working on international norms for cyber and information warfare. I'm trying to get countries to agree on how to use and not use their capabilities, the influence on global democracy, the connection to armed conflict and the future of interstate relations. In practice, this means meeting a lot of people and spending a lot of time negotiating with other countries in scrappy conference rooms in the UN an…

I’ve spent a long career in tech (20+ years and one day hope to fuse that with public service (both elected and foreign such as yours). Would you mind if I were to get in touch to inquire more based on your experiences?

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

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Post by makeee »

tylerrobinson wrote: post #177
makeee wrote: post #139

I'm building a tool that helps people scaffold React apps really quickly (everything from auth flow, payments, DB, form handling, etc, to an actual nice looking UI). It's at least interesting to me because I think a ton of time is wasted on all this and I'd like to help more people get their idea out there rather than reinvent the wheel. If you're interested in taking a look and giving feedback it's https://divjoy.co…

I really like this idea and the execution. Great job.

Thanks Tyler!

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

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Post by johnmorrison »

Chris2048 wrote: post #655
johnmorrison wrote: post #313

A while back, I posted a list of my long term focus problems here [1] Short list: * Pollution and the climate * Privation * Avoidable death * Interplanetary settlement * Liberty and communication * Transportation My primary focus is developing and commercializing reliable clean energy, because I believe that is the most effective way to further progress in the majority of the above problems. To that extent, I've come…

All those things are pretty much industries, let alone fields of study. Also, consider that "keep ~100% of my net worth invested in these main problems" may not be the better strategy for funding those problems, versus "put net worth in growth investments" that can fund the same problems later on.

You have a good point but of course the split is adjusted to that consideration.

I don't believe in profiting from life-saving medication or anything like that, so my intention is to drive rapid growth with my activities in the energy, software, and automotive sectors to fund the less immediately profitable goals.

Make money solving the problems I can first, and later use that money to fund the further-off ones.

Currently this strategy is working well, as my assets are growing at above 2000% annually.

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Post by manx »

jlevers wrote: post #662
manx wrote: post #631

I'm researching ways to scale deliberation and qualtiative decision making in the number of participants. I think this is the base for making politics work and tackling big wicked problems like climate change. It's slow, since my time is limited. But talking with lots of interesting people about ideas and approaches is promising. If you're interested to talk, please contact me.

I'm extremely interested, but I don't see your contact info in your profile. My email's in mine, if you want to get in touch.

Ouch, thanks for telling me. I always thought having filled the email field was enough for others to see it. Fixed now.

Anyways, just sent you a mail.

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