The real payoff has been that in the process I've learned all sorts of things: about Python, data mining, working with large datasets, machine learning...
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#14My ongoing quest to make money predicting horse races. So far I've not made a dime, and don't really expect to, but the faint hope of future monetary rewards keeps me going. The real payoff has been that in the process I've learned all sorts of things: about Python, data mining, working with large datasets, machine learning...
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#15Hoping to build a freemium model out of it for image libraries to use. Happy to speak to anyone with any kind of CV / object detection knowhow.
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This sounds good, care to share your website url and may be the kind of startups/tech area (ideal profile) you'd like to write about?
A simple version 1 comes out Sunday. I'll post it to HN then. The focus is on companies no older than two years, and generally on those with consumer-oriented products. But beyond that, they could be funded or bootstrapped, located in Silicon Valley or Pittsburgh or anywhere else, and led by startup veterans or total newcomers. Amazing stuff is happening everywhere; you just need to look for it.
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#18Also playing with the idea of using Google Docs as ad-hoc CMS for simple client projects.
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#19Paged, multi-column layouts for in-browser publications using HTML/CSS/JS
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#20A programming language where syntax and semantics are manipulable at run-time as well as compile-time and where you can define grammars in-line and use them immediately. I also intend to integrate the concepts of pattern calculus - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3695 - to permit extreme levels of flexibility in the language.
It's a huge project and I'm right at the start of it. But no matter how hard I try I can't get away from the desire to work on language design and compiler development. It's just my thing, and the wonderful thing about hacking is you can just do it :-)