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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by _3ex7 »

njl wrote: post #24

My Django hosting service. I looked at Heroku and thought, "I want that for Python." Yesterday, I got most of the http request path finished. There is some node.js work left, and I still need to do some more work on Varnish. I'm hoping to get to the Postgresql stuff next week, then on to the website and API...

In a discussion at PyOhio this past weekend, a lot of people were mentioning how they wanted a Heroku-like service for Python.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by notahacker »

vosper wrote: post #22
user24 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been thinking of trying to write a machine learning app to do just that. Any hints?

I didn't implement the machine learning algorithms for myself, because there are some really good packages out there and I know I don't have the smarts to better them. Keep in mind that I didn't really have any success: There seem to be two main ML packages, Weka and Orange. I personally preferred Orange, it has a nice graph-based UI for linking various components together; when you've figured that out it can script…

I've heard that the easiest way of predicting greyhound racing is to ignore the form book and monitor the odds changes following bets being placed at the very last minute by those with insider information...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by Zak »

I'm working on text classification. I have a decent classifier that's especially suited to author identification. I can think of a few good uses for it; the first one I'm trying to commercialize is academic anti-cheating.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)?

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Post by duck »

herrherr wrote: post #21

http://www.getmetricmail.com In one sentence: Get your Google Analytics data straight to your inbox. Build as part of my dissertation. Build on Google App Engine.

Great looking site and very easy to use. Obviously the report is a lot nicer than that Google one that you can get emailed in PDF format, but what other advantages are there?

To me the "best" setup would be to avoid the PDF and get the report directly in my mailbox. I know that would require unique graphics for each email, but is that the only barrier from going with that approach?

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