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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by i336_ »

lmcd wrote: post #727
i336_ wrote: post #724

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> A pixel-perfect WebGL/JavaScript implementation of UIKit/QuartzCore that runs basic iOS apps in a web-based simulator at 60fps That sounds really interesting. Do you have a demo URL or (60fps :D) video of this in action?

How's about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD15ncn7KQw Note: this video is 100% real, but I trimmed out some frames here and there (during keypresses and Shopify auth) to make for a seamless pitch.

Now I kinda understand why no URL yet; this is amazing, and I imagine you don't want to leak how you're doing it quite yet. (How ARE you doing it?)

Is the homescreen part of your system, or is that a synthetic simulation?

I wish I had a practical reason to ask to use this. I definitely want to learn if there's ever a demo I can play with :D

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lmcd »

i336_ wrote: post #731
lmcd wrote: post #727

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How's about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD15ncn7KQw Note: this video is 100% real, but I trimmed out some frames here and there (during keypresses and Shopify auth) to make for a seamless pitch.

Now I kinda understand why no URL yet; this is amazing , and I imagine you don't want to leak how you're doing it quite yet. (How ARE you doing it?) Is the homescreen part of your system, or is that a synthetic simulation? I wish I had a practical reason to ask to use this. I definitely want to learn if there's ever a demo I can play with :D

Thx, appreciate it! Pop me an email and I'll keep you in the loop: lee@shopmo.co

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by dheera »

loxias wrote: post #720
dheera wrote: post #636

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Thanks! This is interesting.

Pianoteq is without a doubt the best sounding piano synth on the market today. Uses all sorts of interesting physical modeling algorithms (including string-to-string resonances, with a more-than-first order model...), unfortunately, unpublished. ;) If you're interested in chatting about sound generating software and algorithms, feel free to shoot me a line. "Also, do I remember you from ec-discuss?"

Yep I used to live at EC :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tmescic »

demonshalo wrote: post #328
Ono-Sendai wrote: post #313

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What exactly is the problem? Finding the prime factors of numbers? Or doing it fast?

basically doing it fast for large integers. Here is the challenge I am working toward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge

IBM has these monthly challenges called Ponder This, and this month's challenge is to factor 3 large numbers (~100 decimal digits). Have a look:

https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/ponderthis/challenges/Apr...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by i336_ »

jessriedel wrote: post #726
i336_ wrote: post #719

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Nobody else has mentioned anything along these lines so I'll do so. If you haven't talked to the blind community about this sort of thing already I would strongly recommend doing so as they'll be able to rapidly point you at the bleeding edge of what currently exists - they routinely use text to speech cranked up to illegible speeds. (I also heard of one guy who would listen to TTS from his computer with one ear, whi…

Great comment, thanks. Agreed that blind users would be at cutting edge of this and provide the most useful feedback. > they routinely use text to speech cranked up to illegible speeds. Note that this is not quite what I'm talking about. TTS is a slightly different problem since you're constructing the speech, and you can actually choose voice synthesizers that sound weird but remain intelligible at high speeds. On t…

>> they routinely use text to speech cranked up to illegible speeds.

> Note that this is not quite what I'm talking about.

Good point. I think I forgot to fully qualify that statement - while initially composing my reply I got completely distracted with TTS and forgot this was about altering speech to go faster. I realized and went back and edited it a couple minutes later, but didn't adjust it sufficiently.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by vladfr »

ncantelmo wrote: post #29

Problem: The process of getting thoughts from your head into an organized, written draft form isn't as fast or accessible as it could be. Project: I'm building a conversational UI / bot ( https://writing.ai ) that helps people write faster. The basic idea is that it asks you a series of questions about a topic, asks follow-up questions for more detail as needed, and when it's done outputs a completed draft. You're st…

This is super awesome! I soo need this. Drafting with a structure is a part I often skip when trying to write something, which is why writing has become quite hard. I should stop doing it. But your idea is great, looking forward to seeing it in action!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by egman_ekki »

StephenCanis wrote: post #155

Problem: My experience taking audio tours at various museums showed the use of antiquated and expensive hardware. Most alternate solutions used mobile apps which are inconvenient to download and take more time to release. Project: I went about developing a web app that allows anyone to quickly create an audio tour for free: https://www.youraudiotour.com/create I also integrated Amazon Polly to automatically generate…

You should check out guide from Casa Batllo in Barcelona. Definitely the best one I have seen so far https://www.casabatllo.es/en/visit/videoguide/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by martinvee »

StephenCanis wrote: post #728
martinvee wrote: post #674

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Great idea! Would it be implementable with Google Project Tango? Currently working on an idea with museums, and they don't want to handle any installations (i.e. beacons)

At the moment I haven't considered how I would implement that feature. First I want to see if I can get people to use the basic version. Do you have a website? If so you should share it, would be interesting to see what you're doing.

I see:) We are in the same boat, too early even for a website! Will share an update once we have some progress!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by demonshalo »

tmescic wrote: post #734
demonshalo wrote: post #328

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basically doing it fast for large integers. Here is the challenge I am working toward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge

IBM has these monthly challenges called Ponder This, and this month's challenge is to factor 3 large numbers (~100 decimal digits). Have a look: https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/ponderthis/challenges/Apr...

sweet!

I didn't know about this. Thanks for the link.

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