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Re: Ask HN: I'm out of ideas for side projects. Help please.

#31

I have a cool project that I started on but didnt have time to finish. Anyone interested PM me, its stack; .net core Html Jquery .net core / c# is the only requirement

Sweet! What's the best way to contact you?

Im kinda shy writing my email here. Could I maybe contact you instead?

Re: Ask HN: I'm out of ideas for side projects. Help please.

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I agree however, creating something revolutionary in these spaces takes more than just fiddling with a couple of tensorflow tutorials or udacity courses. For instance I've always wanted to have a music recommendation engine/app that instead of using collaborative filtering uses some kind of machine learning or deep learning algorithm(s) to identify lyric sentiment, complexity and melodic/rhythmic patterns to recommen…

Offhand, I would have thought that would be limited more to knowledge about audio signal processing and what-not, than the actual machine learning itself. I mean, yeah, you can get REALLY deep in the weeds with neural networks, but you can do an awful lot without doing so. If you ever feel like writing about this, I think a lot of people might find value in a blog post from you about what challenges you ran into and…

Yes you are absolutely right, DSP knowledge is also a must. I didn't get that far, I started by identifying what makes people like a certain song and got it down to: Lyrical themes (and overall artist thematic) and melodic and rhythmic patterns. For instance by analyzing data from last.fm I found that a lot of people that listen to Black Metal also seem to have an interest in european/celtic/gaelic folk music, but not all only certain artists with specific lyrical themes and what seemed to me as specific melodic patterns.

Anyway the thing that stumped me was identifying/creating the "features" for rhythmic & melodic patterns, eventually I realized that I was way out of my league and had to drop it.

Later on I found that someone else was already working on this: http://benanne.github.io/2014/08/05/spotify-cnns.html

Re: Ask HN: I'm out of ideas for side projects. Help please.

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What do you recommend for a VR project?

A game would be the easiest thing to get started with. I think down the line, virtually exploring places via scene reconstruction from multiple cameras is going to be absolutely epic, but that is a fairly hard problem.

I have a feeling that e-learning is going to be the killer app for VR/Augmented reality.

Re: Ask HN: I'm out of ideas for side projects. Help please.

#34
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I'm stuck in the same spot. I agree that a lot of niches are already quite saturated. Are you open to collaborate? Maybe if we put our heads together we could think of something.

That would be awesome :) How do I contact you?

Can I contact you? A bit hesitant about putting my email here.

Re: Ask HN: I'm out of ideas for side projects. Help please.

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Sweet! What's the best way to contact you?

Im kinda shy writing my email here. Could I maybe contact you instead?

Please email me at: hi [at] leandro [dot] me
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