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Re: Ask YC: What are you working on right now?

#52
I'm working on a hosted load testing solution. The idea is to make it easy to find scalability issues in advance, like the signup scalability issue HN had when it was TechCrunch'd. The tests will require no hardware, be on-demand, and use an open source tool people might already be using. It should make the process ridiculously easy and scalable if I get things right.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on right now?

#55
I'm building better MRI reconstruction software. Most existing software does a filtered FFT + standard image processing. This throws away information solely because radiologists and other humans can't use it directly.

I'm trying to extract that information and turn it into something usable by humans.

Re: Ask YC: What are you working on right now?

#60
I am currently researching an idea.

PROBLEM: Search results are full of noise.

PROPOSED SOLUTION: (1) Take a raw search feed; (2) Give searchers a tool that enables them to maintain a persistent search state (i.e., it keeps track of your previous queries and all the results you have clicked on while using the tool); (3) Use results from user data to aid in constructing a better ranking of the raw search feed.

The seed for this idea came from a link given to me by one of the professors at BGSU: http://research.microsoft.com/~merrie/collaborative_search.h...

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