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Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by ShinyCyril »

afarrell wrote: post #85

A couples' reading list. Step 1: My wife and I both download an app. Step 2: We link our accounts. Step 3: We each find and read articles in the app, Pocket-style. When done with an article, swipe right if I think my wife should read it. Swipe left if I don't want to pass it on. Step 4: Open the queue of articles that my wife thinks I should read. Read them. Swipe right if I want to chat about it with her. Swipe left…

A friend and I implemented a similar interface for picking a place to eat with your partner / friend. We felt the Tinder-style interaction led to a really nice UX, but didn't gain any traction. It's good to see this interaction being applied to areas other than dating!

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by [deleted] »

afarrell wrote: post #85

A couples' reading list. Step 1: My wife and I both download an app. Step 2: We link our accounts. Step 3: We each find and read articles in the app, Pocket-style. When done with an article, swipe right if I think my wife should read it. Swipe left if I don't want to pass it on. Step 4: Open the queue of articles that my wife thinks I should read. Read them. Swipe right if I want to chat about it with her. Swipe left…

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Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by _nalply »

wodenokoto wrote: post #72
_nalply wrote: post #59

Natural language understanding. This will open Pandora's can, sort of, because really intelligent surveillance and ad targeting becomes possible. Combine a neural network and a lexicon and map an uttering to a graph with probabilities where the graph nodes are entries in the lexicon. Note that this is partly independent from speech recognition. Perhaps speech could be translated to a string of word alternatives with…

> Perhaps speech could be translated to a string of word > alternatives with probabilities, and language > understanding gives a hint which alternatives make more > sense. This is already done, but probabilities are used to determine the best alternative. So basically we ask if p("which" | "Ding dong", "is dead") Or basically, which of the alternatives have the highest probability given the context and we find a way…

Yes. I didn't mean to propose that. I know that speech recognition already considers alternatives and probabilities.

The main focus of my proposal is something different: a more intuitive «understanding» using neural networks and lexicons. This is somewhat orthogonal to speech recognition.

Then I suggested that this «understanding» could help make speech recognition more reliable by adjusting of some probabilities.

You see, I have an important insight as a Deaf person. Lipreading only offers a small part of what a person could understand by hearing. But I am often still able to understand what a person says by guessing and using the discourse context to fill in the blanks. I am sure that we all do that to some extent, or we wouldn't have homonyms in the language.

This insight tells me that perhaps a disrupting innovation would be a more natural «understanding» of text (in written form) with the help of neural networks and a lexicon.

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by _nalply »

wsmith wrote: post #83
_nalply wrote: post #59

Natural language understanding. This will open Pandora's can, sort of, because really intelligent surveillance and ad targeting becomes possible. Combine a neural network and a lexicon and map an uttering to a graph with probabilities where the graph nodes are entries in the lexicon. Note that this is partly independent from speech recognition. Perhaps speech could be translated to a string of word alternatives with…

Can you give an example of something you want this system to understand?

A «misuse» would be a spying system which automatically «understands» euphemisms for forbidden things.

For me an important use would be a tool to make speech recognition more reliable, for example to automatically subtitle Youtube videos with better accuracy.

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by FullMtlAlcoholc »

photogrammetry wrote: post #7

I can't implement an asteroid mining program now because the cost of space launch for the preliminary/prototype mining equipment would be prohibitively high. If I had access to a space launch capability for less than $100/kg, however, I could bootstrap the whole business from my basement with an investment of ~$100-200k from some friends. [0] From SpaceX's perspective, they can put ~5 tons in lunar orbit for a cost o…

Would you mind explaining how you'd bootstrap it? I'm obsessed with asteroid mining

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by FullMtlAlcoholc »

A dating app where after a first meetup, each participant rates each other on how accurate/truthful their profile was. If you misrepresent yourself too many times, you are suspended from the platform until you update your profile/photo.

My single friend tells me of dissapointing dates where the profile photos are years old. She especially dislikes guys who lie about their age to date women in their 20's.

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by bobosha »

tmnvix wrote: post #100

An idea I've had kicking around for a few years now is an app that presents famous artworks in the context of time and place. For people like myself who like great art but have very little knowledge about the relationships or even chronology of the various movements, it would be great to have a broad range of artworks representative of the various movements placed on a map. Together with a slider type interface to ch…

try cuseum.com

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

#108

Post by bobosha »

mobile ad-hoc ephemeral groups : you are at a concert/conference, and someone launches a group , others with the app are notified based on the various criteria (geolocation, interest etc.) . you can subscribe and unsub as soon as an event or session is over. This protects privacy etc. as only an avatar is shared with others, you can message and talk with them, but disconnect once done.

Can be used for announcements, notifications, 2-way comms etc.

Re: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?

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Post by afarrell »

ShinyCyril wrote: post #101
afarrell wrote: post #85

A couples' reading list. Step 1: My wife and I both download an app. Step 2: We link our accounts. Step 3: We each find and read articles in the app, Pocket-style. When done with an article, swipe right if I think my wife should read it. Swipe left if I don't want to pass it on. Step 4: Open the queue of articles that my wife thinks I should read. Read them. Swipe right if I want to chat about it with her. Swipe left…

A friend and I implemented a similar interface for picking a place to eat with your partner / friend. We felt the Tinder-style interaction led to a really nice UX, but didn't gain any traction. It's good to see this interaction being applied to areas other than dating!

Is the app available on iOS? Does it have data for London restaurants? wife and I would use it.
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